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When Your Kid Comes Home With That Story: Wake-Up Calls for White Parents #antiracistparenting #dothework #parentingforjustice #parentingwhiltewhite #raisingresistantkids #startwhereyouare #talkaboutrace #whiteaccountability #whiteawakeparenting #whitenessisnotinnocence

It often starts with a story.

Your child walks through the door with a certain look on their face. Maybe they’re quiet. Maybe they’re mad. Maybe they blurt it out while grabbing a snack or kicking off their shoes:

“The security guard followed me around the whole store.”
“This white kid touched m

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When We Parent with Unexamined Bias, We Burden Our Children #antiracistparenting #biasinparenting #breakthecycle #consciousparenting #gentleparenting #parentingwithawareness #transracialadoption #transracialparenting #whiteawakeparenting #whiteparentsofkidsofcolor

You love your children deeply. You're doing your best to raise them with care, intention and heart. And yes - adopting or raising children of color has changed you in profound ways. But love alone doesn't erase the deeper patterns we've inherited. And when we parent with unexamined bias, our childre...

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When Equity Gets Complicated #adoptiontruths #adoptiveparenting #antiracistparenting #blackownedbusiness #decolonizeparenting #fasd #fetalalcoholspectrumdisorders #messyconversations #parentingneurodivergence #therapymatters #understandingfasd #unlearningwhiteness #whiteawakeparenting

What I Learned from Blindly Trusting a Black-Owned Counseling Practice

I believe deeply in supporting Black-owned businesses.

As a white mother raising Black children, I know representation matters — not just in books and movies, but in the people who surround and serve my kids. Especially in the ...

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10 Signs You’d Benefit from White Awake Parenting #adoptiveparent #antiracistparenting #breakingcyles #consciousparenting #generationalhealing #generationaltrauma #parentingacrossrace #parentingforchange #parentingsupport #transracialadoption #wakeuptowhiteness #whiteawakeparenting

Parenting is hard. Transracial parenting? It’s a whole different level of navigating love, loss, and learning. White Awake Parenting was born out of my own humbling, heartbreaking, and ultimately life-expanding experience of raising Black children in a world that wasn’t built for them—and of waking ...

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I Didn't Know How to Care for Their Hair - And I Didn't Know How to Listen #antiracistparenting #blackhair #blackjoystartsathome #blackpride #culturalhumility #dobetterlearnmore #hairisidentity #parentingawakening #parentingwithawareness #raisingblackkids #transracialadoption #transracialparenting #whiteawakeparenting #whiteparentingwakeup

When my twins were toddlers, I remember being called out about their hair.

Strangers—Black strangers—would approach me in the grocery store or at the park with comments that, at the time, I interpreted as criticism.

“You’ve got to moisturize their hair.”
“Whew, they’re dry, mama.”

In my head, I w...

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The Hair Talk: What I Didn't Know About My Black Children's Hair #antiracistparenting #blackjoystartsathome #culturalhumillity #dobetterlearnmore #everydayracism #hairisidentity #parentingawakening #parentingwithawareness #raisingblackchildren #transracialadoption #transracialparenting #whiteawakeparenting #whiteparentswakeup

When my children were toddlers, I remember a moment in the grocery store—an older Black woman looked at my kids and said something about their hair. She was kind and gentle but I was taken aback. Defensive. Embarrassed.

Inside, I thought, Why are you criticizing me? I was doing my best. At the time...

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