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WHAT ARE YOU TEACHING YOUR KIDS?

I’M A white woman with two fair-skinned, blond, blue-eyed, mixed-race boys.

I know the pressure is on to teach my children to embrace and celebrate who they are. But I also need to teach them to be prepared for a world that might discriminate against them.

Ultimately, what I teach my children is that they aren’t half-coloured, half-white. They aren’t half anything. My children are a beautiful combination of

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