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Transracial Adoption
Hello!
While we only have one child, who is AA/CA, I understand your comments on discussing race with your children. Please rad the book listed below. YOu will find it to be AMAZINGLY helpful to you with BOTH of your children. You may also want to read "color Complex." It's a book about skin color within the AA community. Very interesting reading.
I also greatly appreciate the comment that we should sometimes just say "thank you" and move on. We get too caught up in our adult world of proving that adoption is a great thing. Children often get confused when we protest to much about how great something is. I'm going to try to keep my mouth from running away a little more often now.
Thanks for letting me run on.
Sarah
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Favorite Book: "Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parent's Guide to Raising Multiracial Children" by D. Jackson Nakazawa--Addresses the special questions & concerns facing both transracial adoptive families & bio families, explaining how parents can best prepare multiracial children of all ages to make their way confidently in a color-conscious world.
"I can't take credit for the face, but I will take credit for the smile."
"Truth is the cure for ignorance. Stupidity, however, is terminal."
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