Whether you’re in an established multicultural marriage or you’re just starting out on your journey in an intercultural relationship, figuring out what makes multicultural families work is a lifelong journey. There are never any hard and fast rules in any relationship. It takes time, compromise, communication and maturity for couples to get to a place …
How many times have you heard this one from your darling daughters before? “Mummy, I want long hair… like the princesses”. Or, how about this? “Mum, I can’t be Superman without a mask. My skin is too brown”. For Mums of brown skinned beauties, the words coming out of our children’s mouths seem to take …
Black or Multiracial?: Raising Biracial Kids The other day I came across a post from a fellow multiracial mama about how she refuses to call her biracial kids black but instead intentionally refers to them as multiracial or mixed. It generated an interesting discussion about why, why not, and whether that is truly the message we should be …
I love Christmas (if you haven’t guessed that already) and just as much as I love the lights, the tinsel, Santa and all the decorations, I also love the intensity of it all. But I recognise this can be challenging and sometimes painful for families where, seeing each other once or twice a year is …
Halloween is next week and while I’m thinking of the usual ideas like zombies, witches and ghosts, for the first time, I’d like my daughters to consider that representation matters. I’d like them to see themselves represented, not just in the shows they watch, the books they read and the movies they go to but …
