Need blog suggestions

This isn't particularly about white parents raising multi-racial kids, it's just about parenting and race in general. [URL="http://loveisntenough.com/"]Love Isn't Enough[/URL]Here's [URL="http://www.untrainedhairmom.com/"]Untrained Hair Mom[/URL] which is about white parents raising bi-racial kids. There's a focus on hair care and natural products for the home, but she strays into other topics, too.[URL="http://loveyourgirlsbiracialcurls.blogspot.com/"]Love Your Girl's Biracial Curls[/URL] is a parenting and bi-racial hair care site, focus on natural products.Here's [URL="http://peterscrossstation.wordpress.com/"]Peter's Cross Station[/URL] which is by a mom (who I think is a professional author and recently took up homeschooling) with one black and one bi-racial child.This is [URL="http://www.adoptiongoddess.com/"]The Adoption Goddess[/URL] and she has a multicultural family with children adopted from Africa and Guatemala. It's not the same as a multi-racial child, of course, but hopefully there are bits that will apply.I don't know their complete racial makeup, but [URL="http://www.adoptioncreatesfamilies.com/"]Adoption Creates Families[/URL] has one or more bi-racial kids.And finally, [URL="http://www.orondeamiller.com/"]Oronde A. Miller[/URL], who is a bi-racial adoptee who has spent his life working in adoption and trying to make it a better institution.Hope this helps. I just realized while writing this how ridiculous my blogroll has gotten. :)

I don't know of anything that would fit what you are looking for, specifically, but have a few suggestions, just in general. What I've found the most useful in raising those of my kids who aren't the same race I am (all of whom have at least one black birth parents) is to learn everything I could about African American history and culture. I would say that learning about the specific cultural backgrounds of your child would probably be helpful. One thing that I would think would be interesting is learning about the tradition foods. Andrew Zimmern has done two shows from Morocco. Although the show is called "Bizzare Foods", some of the episodes focus more on the common foods of a region, when it is something that is quite different from what we see in America. The ones from Morocco are two of my favorites, which show a lot of the traditional foods. I think, when you are raising a child with a background that is quite uncommon where you happen to live, embracing some of the special things from that culture makes the child feel special.

Thank you so much everyone for your suggestions. Noelani, you hit on a topic that I used to give a lot of thought to, but haven't pursued because, well, you know, life just takes over. We live around DC, and with a quick Google search came up with lots of restaurants and activities to celebrate her heritage. I am so pleased that the city we live in is having a Kunte Kinte festival this weekend. Cam loved it last year. :)

Here's four of my favorite blogs about transracial adoption. I found them through various sources and contacted two of the blog authors about questions during our adoption journey. [url=http://missohkay.wordpress.com]the misadventures of missohkay[/url] (international adoption from DRC)[url=http://www.fromiftowhen.com]from IF to when[/url] (domestic transracial adoption)[url=http://callmemama.wordpress.com]A child to call me mama[/url] (domestic transracial)[url=http://rainsthoughts.wordpress.com]Weathering Storms[/url] (domestic transracial)I would also check out [url=http://openadoptionbloggers.com]Open Adoption Bloggers[/url] ...there's a blogroll with a ton of adoption blogs listed.

I love this blog. The family has 5 kids, 4 black & 1 multiracial, adopted both privately & from foster care.