Transracial kids & Self-esteem

I have definitely found this to be the case with my oldest daughter. She really identifies with being mixed and she loves being both of Latin and African American heritage, she also loves having a white mom, cause she has said that she feels like "she's like everyone" so my five year old, is enjoying her mixed ethnicity. We went to a Black Heritage parade today and she connected with being black, but when we got home, we live in a Latino community and she is learning Spanish and also knows that she is part Latino. She feels like she fits into that group as well as she plays with and speaks Spanish to the neighborhood kids. When she's with her white family, she doesn't blink an eye. But she does appreciate having a mixed race sister (she actually has two, her baby sister and her older bio sister) who have similar perspectives on life.

[QUOTE=musemoon]I have definitely found this to be the case with my oldest daughter. She really identifies with being mixed and she loves being both of Latin and African American heritage, she also loves having a white mom, cause she has said that she feels like "she's like everyone" so my five year old, is enjoying her mixed ethnicity. /QUOTE] That's really cool! My daughter is full AA, but I hope when she's older she likes having white parents too, & being in a "mixed" family.

That is just so cool! Thanks for sharing, I love reading things like this. Cam is CC/Hispanic on first mom's side and Moroccan on her first dad's side. She is going to be rich in culture. :)

My friend is AA, Caucasian and Native American, very light-complected, could pass for white. She said her mother told her, "You're the United Nations, baby."

LOL....my L is NOT a social butterfly but we'll see.....her second foster home was great (unlike the first emergency foster home that was horrific) and her foster mom was also AA, like L's mother so if we're together with a group of friends of mine that are AA....she's miss social.....when she's with my lily white cuban family she's social too! outside of that....she feels more relaxed with darker skinned strangers than light skinned strangers. But I'm wondering if that has anything to do with the first foster home as well.....L is an elephant...I swear that girl never forgets and forgiveness is not free with her. I think that article is good only in the mainstream USA though....since I'm enmeshed in my cuban culture (I'm very sad that many of the "older people" are dying....I think *I'm* going through a crisis of identity) a cuban person is a Cuban person....there are Black and CC cubans....some are mixed... but the sum is that they are CUBAN and that's what they relate to (of course we're talking about a different country with different set of history in regards to Blacks and CCs)