by Alicia Barnes of liciabobesha.com I always assumed I’d work and have babies. I mean I went to college after all. Then my life looked like this: 6:45 wake, dress everyone 7:15 leave for childcare/work 8:00 start work day 5:15 pick up baby, eat dinner, play with baby, bathe baby 7:30 put baby to bed On…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Sundi When I was in college I remember seeing the study where young African American girls had to choose between a black doll and a white doll and point to which one was good and which one was bad. The girls routinely chose the black doll as bad and the white doll as good. It…
➠ Continue ReadingI would rock this look to a cafe with the hubby, Barnes and Noble with the kids (4 babies I might add), or our all around Family Day that we do Saturdays (museum, Goodwill for shopping, dinner)! Although I’m a mom, I believe that I can still be both stylish and comfortable. Nothing in this…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Jenn Jackson My husband and I have three gorgeous children. Our oldest will be six next month. Our youngest just arrived last month. We were married in 2006 after dating for three years. We are college sweethearts. Next spring, we will celebrate our eighth wedding anniversary. And, if you did the math, that means…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Sundi Ever since I was a young girl, I knew that I would be a stay at home mom. I decided it when I was four years old, and I would get tearful every time I saw my mother leave for work. I thought to myself that when I have children, I would stay at…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Didan Ashanta I gave birth in the maternity unit of a private hospital – the same one that I was born in exactly 30 years and 16 days before. The hospital’s website proclaims that it “is recognized as a ‘Baby-Friendly’ hospital”. This means that the hospital practises all ten steps to successful breast-feeding as established…
➠ Continue ReadingAre you seriously asking me that?by Alicia Barnes of liciabobesha.com 1. Are you scared? Of what? Of the dark? Yeah a little. I never quite outgrew that. When I have to sleep alone, I totally don’t dim the lights the whole way. Oh of becoming a parent? Scared is not the word. I’m excited, but I’m…
➠ Continue ReadingBy Vanessa H. When my daughter Kennedy was 4 months old I decided to “sleep train, ” but with all the literature out there about how to do it I was completely overwhelmed figuring out which method to follow – especially because the information can be contradictory. After a few weeks of trying and failing a lot,…
➠ Continue ReadingBy DeAnna It seems that one of the most common subjects in the stand up routines of black comedians is the difference between black people and white people. More specifically, the differences between black parents and white parents. We’ve all heard it before: White children are little hellions that run wild because their parents don’t discipline…
➠ Continue ReadingA few weeks ago an Ebony.com article called ‘Dear Beautiful Daughters Who Happen to Be Light‘ popped up in my Facebook timeline. Curious, I clicked on the link. The letter started with “Dear beautiful daughters who happen to be racially ambiguous, ” and it only got worse from there. While I believe the piece was…
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