[Editor's note: Bianca wrote this piece explicitly for those who parent  and counsel youth of color, but, as usual, her words have much broader application.]
written by Love Isn’t Enough columnist Bianca Laureano; Part I of this post can be found here
10 to12-year-olds have lots of questions about dating and creating relationships. I’ve discovered that crushes [...]

Talk.

 
It’s Thursday, which means it’s tme for another gratuitous cute kid pic. This one comes from reader Patricia M.
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[Editor's note: Bianca wrote this piece explicitly for those who parent  and counsel youth of color, but, as usual, her words have much broader application.]
written by Love Isn’t Enough columnist Bianca Laureano
When I visited with my mentee of over 17 years, Candy, this year I met her boyfriend of one year for the first time. Over [...]

The Third Annual American Indian Youth Literature Awards were announced in January. The blog American Indians in Children’s Literature highlights several of the winners.
Over at Kimchi Mamas, Twizzle weighs in on being “Korean enough” and sharing Korean culture with her children:
My strong desire to “identify Korean” had never been supported by my full Korean mother, [...]

“People Are Children” is a short documentary, a conversation really, that explores the voices and perspectives of many types of children of varying backgrounds. When we discuss discrimination and diversity we sometimes forget that the world we are living in does not belong to us, but rather, our children. They are the ones who inherit [...]

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It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic. Colleen B. shared this photo of her “beautiful boy” Jacob.
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(via Womanist Musings)
Tuscaroras.com looks at how race bias and learned self-hatred can effect Native American children:
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As I look back at my grandmother, I realize that she was a victim of racism and taught self-hatred, for as a very young child she was made to feel sub-human and to hate the things that made her different [...]

Am I the only one who wasn’t familiar with the Web site FamilyEducation.com? I surfed over there yesterday to find this brief primer on “Raising Children Free of Prejudice” by Alvin Poussaint, M.D. and Susan Linn, Ed.D.
Children don’t come pre-equipped with reactions to each new experience in their lives. For instance, all young children instinctively [...]

(via Harlow’s Monkey and Jezebel)
New internet game encourages children to make their characters wear sexy lingerie and buy ‘trophy’ orphans
By Daily Mail Reporter
The adoption clinic in a virtual Style City features girls called Pax and Maddox and a boy named Zahara after Angelina Jolie’s children.
The virtual youngsters have the same nationalities as Jolie’s with Maddox, [...]

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It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic. Reader “MamaCandtheBoys” says “You wanna see cute? I’ve got cute!” And, boy, does she: Meet Sam and Marcel.
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Dear Love Isn’t Enough,
My husband and I are white. We have a bio son and daughter and a son who was born in Ethiopia.
Since I was a girl, I have been drawn to learning about Africa. I watched documentaries and read books about African cultures, land and wildlife. As I grew older I was [...]

At Harlow’s Monkey, LIE columnist Jae Ran weighs in on the airlifting of Haitian “orphans” to other countries:
…we [benevolent and altruistic humanitarians] can’t trust them [poor, under-developed] to know what to do with the money we give them. After all, they just loot. And since *we* know better how to use resources, we can make [...]

written by Love Isn’t Enough editor Tami Winfrey Harris; originally published at What Tami Said
A Love Isn’t Enough reader, Miriam S., sent me a link to a post on Motherlode, The New York Times’ parenting blog. In it, guest blogger Larissa Kosmos recalls the first time she, a sheltered child from an all-white community, touched [...]

What’s on your mind?

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic. This one comes from Love Isn’t Enough columnist Bianca Laureano. Biana writes: “Here’s Candy and I this year. I met Candy when she was in first grade and needed help reading in English at a tutoring/mentoring program for Latino youth in Silver Spring, [...]

written by Love Isn’t Enough editor Tami Winfrey Harris; originally published at What Tami Said
Regular followers of this blog know how much I love books and believe in the power and importance of reading beginning at an early age. I take so much enjoyment in reading and books have played such an important role in [...]

Racialicious explores Michael Steele, “Honest Injun” and “Injun” in children’s books:
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – published in 1876, where “evil is embodied in the treacherous figure of Injun Joe,” (p. x of the intro to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, a Signet Classic book published in 2002) and in [...]