by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Paula, originally published at Heart, Mind and Seoul
A little over a week ago, I received a phone call from a woman who happens to work with my mom. This woman, K., is only a few years older than I am and has three children; her youngest child is in the […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Paula, originally published at Heart, Mind and Seoul
Let’s say you and your young child decide to go on a picnic at a park that happens to be within walking distance from where you live. You carefully pack up all of the necessary items that you require for your outing and […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Paula, originally published at Heart, Mind and Seoul
On numerous occasions in the past, I’ve been fairly unsuccessful in trying to convey how many times I’ve felt that the messages and attitudes perpetuated by our society about adoption often leads me to feel that I am reduced down to nothing more than […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Paula
Perhaps it’s just me - but as a parent of a biracial daughter and an Asian son - it’s far from my dream as their mother to have either of them enter into their adulthood thinking, believing, announcing and celebrating that they are white (or have our daughter claiming a white-only […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Paula
Apparently I was the first Asian Rick had ever seen in real life - up close and personal.
“Wow. You are so healthy looking. I mean, I think it’s great. I just didn’t think. . .Wow. . .Really. . . You are just so. . .so healthy.”
I first met […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Paula, originally published at Heart, Mind and Seoul
When I was in the 2nd grade, my teacher would occasionally ask for a student to volunteer and help close the end of the school day with a joke, funny story or even just sharing something about themselves with the rest of the class. […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Paula
It is an honor to participate in the dialogue here at Anti-Racist Parent as a columnist. As a Korean adoptee of white parents who is married to a white man with two children – including a daughter who was born unto us and a son who, like me, is adopted from […]