MULTIRACIAL PARENTING BOOKS As an African-American and South Asian-American family one of the challenges we hear from other multiracial and multicultural families is how do you find the right cultural balance for your child? We live in a world that is very race and culturally conscious but not competent. As a whole our society/ world is not enlightened and seems …
BOOK REVIEW: A QUICK REVIEW OF A BUCKET OF BLESSINGS A BUCKET OF BLESSING by Kabir Sehgal and Surishtha Sehgal 2014. Beach Lane Books 32 pages. First three sentences: Near a majestic mountain, in a vast jungle with many mango trees, lives Monkey. It has not rained for weeks. The village well and the pond are dry. Premise/plot: …
WHERE ARE THE SOUTH-ASIAN CULTURE LEARNING TOOLS? THE SANSKRITI BOX The Sanskriti box is a monthly subscription box for children. It brilliantly provides parents and educators alike with storybooks and activities from South-Asian culture. The box can be customized to the size of your family and touts itself as “helping you to build a library that can …
1 YEAR BLOG ANNIVERSARY GIVEAWAYS by GROWING UP GUPTA Prize:The Kids’ Multicultural Cookbook (Kids Can!) Requirements for participation: 18+ years of age (or legal age) Resident of the 50 United States or the District of Columbia https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/e0fc58e77485d263 Click the link above to enter this giveaway!
NEW BHANGRA WORKOUT YOU HAVE TO TRY NOW… MASALA BHANGRA TRANSFORMATION WHAT POST BABY WEIGHT LOSS CELEBRATION? My post baby weight loss celebration has been at a snails pace. An utter contradiction to all the jabber about how effortless it will be to lose the baby weight. I did everything they prescribe you to do in the welcome to motherhood articles and books. That’s right …
OUR CHRISTMAS DAY ER SCARE “ARE YOU ASIAN?…” I could have never guessed that after deciding to become a blogger my life would become more and more of an open book. And for those of you that know our family personally you know that we are quite the opposite in everyday life. Nonetheless, what happened to my husband who is …
The Ultimate Tips For Planning A Disney Vacation For Under $2K “I instantly thought to myself, who can afford to go to Walt Disney World then…?” About a month ago, our family headed to the inglorious world of Disney. Our daughter had recently turned the great, big, three years of age. Every day we …
UNEXPECTED EXPECTATIONS IN PARIS RAISING MULTICULTURAL KIDS IN FRANCE Guest post by: Amanda Otto, edited by: Caroline Sandiford “The theme of our relationship from the start has been, “Jump in and worry about the details later…” I think this must be true for many relationships, but international romances also involve: very long distances, language …
Must-Haves For Traveling To India With Kids November 2015, was our first multicultural family trip to India. It was the first time that my 2-year-old daughter and I got to meet my Indian husband’s extended family in India. It was a phenomenal trip, and in the course of writing about the trip, we have gotten …
MASALA HOLIDAY(S) The fusion of two distinct cultures doesn’t have to be difficult as long as you and your significant other are willing to openly communicate and compromise with each other. As an interracial/intercultural family we wanted to incorporate different elements from our family culture into our union. One in particular, we came up with …
