Am I the only one that feels like if you have interracial kids It’s important to be educated on…
Am I the only one that feels like if you have interracial kids It’s important to be educated on things that makes up their heritage? Like my friend doesn’t feel it’s necessary that she learns things about her daughters Mexican side because that’s what “dad is for” but I just feel like you should want to know about traditions, how to cook good Mexican food, Mexican history, learn Spanish ect. Dad won’t always be there to educate and how will your child love their blended background when you don’t feel it’s necessary to learn about it? Idk her responses irritated me 🙄
Icebergahead·
Мама сына (9 лет)
I believe it is very important.
JenX·
It's incredibly important! I totally agree with you.
M_🖤·
I think it’s incredibly important
🪴📚·
Absolutely and it’s ridiculous that she thinks that way.
Mandy·
Super important. My sister is a single mom (black) and her daughter is half Hispanic....she doesn't even acknowledge this and I'm almost 💯 sure my niece doesn't know she's Hispanic at all and she's almost 12.
M0MM··
It’s so difficult as a single lineage parent to embrace another culture unless you put the effort forward. Nobody just knows these things. I totally get this & can agree that if I were to die (100% Latina bloodline) she would know nothing about my background. Being the parent I am, we’ve purchased numerous books and surround ourselves with different black cultures. Her father did his Ancestry and found his lineage. We start at a map and dive in.
Luna_bear ·
It's so important! When I married my husband and had our kids, I completely embraced his culture, as he did mine. We educate each other as well as our kids. We enjoy it!
M0MM·
Absolutely incredibly important.
I think parents without interracial children should take a course on other cultures so they aren’t raising kids to ask questions like “Why is your hair so wild” or statements like “did you get dark skin from your dad?” That’s implying there’s a problem with the differences in our children.
XryztalRoze·
I always thought so, but my husband doesn't so much. He feels that he is American now and our children are fully American having been born here. One's opinion is often shaped by their experiences in life. Having always wondered what my ethnic make up is and not knowing perhaps fuels me to care more than him since he actually knows his background and was raised with cultural foods and traditions. At the end of the day what matters to us is only as important as the emphasis we place on the subject at hand. For some of us this is more important than to others and our children will carve their own paths no matter how much we teach them about who or what we think them to be. Sometimes as moms we care more than our ever changing children. If they ask however, then yes, it is and will always be important. So, I guess the topic can be seen from many angles with each answer differing from the next. There's often really no right or wrong with this unless you deny one side or the other or put down the different sides. We don't mention ethnicity in our home yet, but I say yet, bc they will ask one day and we will talk to them about it at that time... In the meantime we just naturally include different cultural things from both sides as comes to us each day. To each there own. Yes it's important but it's not the most important part of who someone is. On the other hand as DH just said the more effort we put into learning about our spouse, the more we show we love them, and ultimately show our children how much we love them as well. But when I look at my children I don't see multi-ethnic children, I see whole little human beings who are 100% individual. Reducing someone to their ethnicity does nothing to build them up as people. So how one goes about learning and teaching about the family's ethnic blend can be good or bad. Intent and approach are crucial. Hope this helps in some way. Have a good night!