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TOPIC: I didn't really do it.
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Re:I didn't really do it. 2008/02/20 13:41
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Hi Gail,
Among our kids wer have Korean/black, Latino, Haitian, and African American. We belong to three congregations--a reform Jewish synagogue, Catholic church, and Quaker meeting. We can go to the synagogue Friday night, Catholic mass on Saturday, and meeting on Sunday. When you have an older foster kid who already has been through some of the rites of their religion, you can't deny them. We don't do this every week.
We live in a very diverse neighborhood. When the schools have their multicultural days, the kids have a limitless choice of what to bring. Since dad is Polish/Italian, they usually want to bring dill pickle soup or calamari. I think that kind of surprised the teachers at first.
GG
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Re:I didn't really do it. 2008/02/21 14:30
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Let me just vent for a second. I hate when people don't see us as a family because we don't LOOK the same. Ahhhh! I can't count the times I have been asked if we were a daycare or which ones were mine.
ALL OF THEM!!!
Getting Down from the soapbox~
Blessings~
Gail
“How Can There Be Too Many Children?”
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Re:I didn't really do it. 2008/02/21 14:46
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Ah... but that is one of the realities of having a mixed race family, no matter how it resulted. A good friend of mine gave birth to two biracial children, then remarried and had three more Caucasian kids. She got it all the time.
What I figure is, it is natural for people to draw the wrong conclusion or ask before they KNOW... But what is their reaction AFTER they know?
I REALLY had no patience with those who treated my friend differently after they discovered that the two black children were hers too... or who treated her oldest two differently than the younger three!
My sister (brown hair, blue eyes) nursed her last adopted child, a black/Hispanic biracial child. Boy, did she get looks over that! They were even stranger when her light-skinned, red haired husband was with her! She told him that he should tell them, "She says he's mine... And I believe her!"
Laura
Mom to Eight
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Re:I didn't really do it. 2008/02/22 11:25
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Right now we have 5 teenage boys--4 at home, 1 away at college. Two are biracial, 1 Haitian, 2 Latino. When their dad--large white guy--takes them out it's like a basketball coach and his team. Sometimes they tease him by calling him "coach." Folks usually assume he is their teacher or "big brother."
GG
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