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Talking to Children About Race
We knew that we would need to talk to our children about being biracial, ..... Ideas for Helping Adopted African American Baby Find Role Models ...
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- Hi B., I had a similar situation occur with my oldest. I am white and grew up in an area predominantly african american. Needless to say, I have alot of friends who ar...
- I have a 3-year-old daughter by international adoption and a couple of our favorites are The Skin You Live In, by Michael Tyler All the Colors of the Earth, by ...
- My friend is a dark skinned African American woman and her husband is a very pale white caucasion. Their two daughters are somewhere in between. Whenever kids bring it...
Hair
There is a pretty broad range of texture you can have with bi-racial hair. ... Ok so I'm not bi-racial or anything but I do have long thick coarse hair. ...
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- Do you have a Philip Pelusi salon close by. These people really know hair and can help you. Be careful if you use straighteners, they can ruin her hair. I have fine...
- I am a mom of three daughters, and one son. I am also a salon owner in Manheim. My shop is called Style Mosaic beauty salon. My oldest daughter is caucasion, howeve...
- I wish I could help you with you specific proplem. But my daughter has extremely curly hair (as do I). The main difference is that we are both caucasian. We both ha...
I Would like Info on Sickel Cell Trait
You need to talk to your doctor, there are test that they can run as soon as the baby is born to find out if the baby has it. My daughter is bi-racial and ...
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- Your baby will be checked for the trait when it's born. Just because your boyfriend carries the trait, doesn't mean the baby will have it. Both of you have to have t...
- Just type in sickel cell in the computer and lern, learn, learn is the spelling sickle or sickel? I believe le
- www.kidshealth.org has a really good article about it. Truman Medical Center has a Sickle Cell Research Center, as well.
Transracial Adoption
We have 2 adopted children, one caucasion and the other bi-racial ..... Next question: Ideas for Helping Adopted African American Baby Find Role Models ...
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- I don't have any great advice to share. I just wanted to say good luck through the adoption phase and what wonderful parents/people you are. Jen
- i am a white mother of a transracial child. the only thing i can say is that before you adopt a child of another race you have to understand that simply being white i...
- We know of families who have adopted African American children and all has went well for them but those adoptions were closed adoptions. They adopted through the fost...
Curly Hair
Sep 28, 2009 ... Paul Mitchell makes the best baby hair care products and will help keep ... check it outi initially purchased the product for my biracial ...
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- Do not cut her hair! Every single female in my family, including me, has curly hair. Cuuting it just makes you look like a distressed poodle. My mom did that to me ...
- Hi J., This is kind of late, but I just wanted to reiterate the important points about curly hair. I am 41 and have had super curly hair my whole life. Now I am b...
- I use garnier fructise leave in conditioner on top of my conditioner because I have dry and fine hair. It could help.
Baby Modeling
Read all 6 responses: "Hi - I'm looking for advice on baby modeling. ... Biracial children with different mixes are really popular now days. Helpful? ...
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- Caryn International and Moore I heard were good agencies. Places may have information as to what you need to do. I submitted my photo's to Caryn and just never heard...
- Hi- My son appeared in an ad for Target stores when he was approx. 9 months old. I have a girlfriend who works on the print for all baby/kid items and it was her sugg...
- My friend's 2 year old son is represented by The Wehmann Agency. http://www.wehmann.com She LOVES them! They only asked for an 8x10 photo of her son with his statis...
Seeking Advice About Adoption
They do African American, Biracial and some domestic special needs and ... on the baby and even testing that we knew they were a quality organization. ...
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- We have three children that we adopted through The Cradle. It is a wonderful agency with the only on site nursery in the country. Two of our three children stayed in...
- I'm a social worker and I've always heard good things about the Cradle, both professionally and personally. You might check out some parenting blogs--there are lots...
- We have one adopted son and one on the way next month! I would be happy to talk with you about adoption.
Dry Hair
Which i'm a big fan of olive oil when it comes to my baby . ... It smells good and has made a real difference in his hair (he is bi-racial white/black). ...
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- Arbonne Nourishig Daily Shampoo and Nourishing Daily Conditioner is excellent for dry hair. Arbonne products are very "Green" but super "result" oriented. Good to th...
- I use this product on my son. http://www.cvs.com/CVSApp/catalog/shop_product_detail.jsp?filterBy=&skuId=245781&productId=245781&navAction=jump&navCount=3 It is only $5...
- Since I started "restoring my hair to its natural color" I have found that the highlighting has really dried out my hair. However, my budget is very tight so I found t...
Any Experience with Adopting a Child?
Oct 19, 2009 ... Our oldest son came as a 15 mo old foster babycute as could be We ... this family She is biracial her features are a bit different but she ...
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- I don't have any experience adopting a child, but a good friend does. She just adopted a little girl from Ethiopia in August. You can try reading her blog, which talks...
- We were a couple who married a bit after most people, as I was a missionary plus my husband and I had never met the right "other half" sooner. Anyway, when we found t...
- WHAT BEAUTIFUL STORIES FROM ALL OF YOU! Just wanted to wish you many blessings in your endeavor to love a child.
School Is Asking for My Child's Race
She's not biracial in my eyes but tri-racial. I'm sure they don't have a option for ... Ideas for Helping Adopted African American Baby Find Role Models ...
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- FYI - my workplace has their employees fill out the form also for statistical purposes. If the employee chooses not to fill it out, the HR person has to choose one fo...
- The No Child Left Behind Act requires schools get a breakdown, by race (among other things) of the test scores in a school. I would suggest calling your child's schoo...
- My daughters school did too, it is a new policy of the DoE... My husband just told me a great idea that i wished i did! He said to ALWAYS mark OTHER and beside that ...
