How do we help these diverse-race kids that are adopted into white families?
The reality is ... It’s really hard to be the black/brown kid in a white family. There’s a level of loneliness I can’t relate to.
There are stories and experiences and history that need to be passed down that I don’t have to share with her. She is a a Welch AND she is more.!!
As a family we must stop thinking of ourselves as her only family. Laila needs role models etc… that look like her. ( J Lo, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotamayor, ) She needs to hear the messaging that nothing is inferior. Your culture is beautiful.
I Need to be a better cheerleader of my child’s culture for her.
On the plus side, I am so grateful we had brown and black cousins for Laila. Grateful for the Morleys and Callisters who let Laila just hang out with them.
It's a miracle we all got through this.
We are in the process of finding Laila's birth momma-- and it will be an experience for all of us. She's hoping to have her here for the wedding in September. That would be a miracle.
Staying grounded through all of this is the miracle...
"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle."
-Thich Nhat Hanh-
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