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MIXED BABIES 👶🏻 👶🏽👶🏾👶🏽

Race identity - long post sorry

Hope this can start up the topic for anyone who may also be thinking of these things❤️


My baby girl is only 5 months old so I guess I’m a bit of a way from experiencing these difficulties and having to go through the motions of it buttttt- how have you managed teaching your children to appreciate both/all sides of their race? Tbh I’m not sure how to word the question it feels so loaded but I’m white and my daughters dad is black, so she is very clearly mixed race.I feel like naturally how we raise her and the experiences she has will shape how she deals with any racism and self image but those with older kids is there anything that came up or you did to help this? And those with younger kids/babies is there anything you’ve already thought about implementing/doing?

I’ve thought about the easy topics appreciating her hair and skin tone, the fact she looks different to all of her family on both sides I feel like those will come naturally, we’ve got books about families of different races and I plan on making sure when she gets dolls etc it’s dolls that look more like her and a variety rather than the basic white dolls.

I want her to know that it isn’t the only thing that defines her though, through life I’ve seen a lot of mixed race girls be boiled down to that one label, and I’ve already seen it be done to her when people address her being cute like “what a cute mixed baby” someone actually said to me “I love these type of babies” and some of her family on her dad said have been saying things along the lines of “we’ve finally got a mixed raced baby” although they’re all ‘positive’ comments they don’t sit right with me because who would say what a cute white baby/what a cute black baby, her dad doesn’t get my point on why it sounds off to me which also makes me wonder if it will be harder when these sort of things continue to come up.