1dayatatime

I was reading these post last night and I started balling. Life is so unfair. Sometimes I get so mad at God for the things He allows to happen.

As for the original post I am American, beyond that I have no idea. My family has never celebrated any kind of culture thing. I welcome my kids to research if they feel its necessary. I'm more concerened with the person I am that is different from my family. About half my family was or is trailer trash.

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Kaytee

but that is your culture. If you don't do anything "special" so what! Its still special to you and to them. If you have nothing to do with any culture besides American, then you are teaching them that.

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Bek has asked why she only has one grandma, I told her that she has two grandma's only one is in heaven, watching over her so she's never alone. Problem is that my mum died in childbirth when she was having me, and my dad was always sketchy on the details, mainly because he would get upset talking about it, so when she starts asking deeper quentions all I can answer with is "I dont know"

Im still trying to work out how to explain the three grandpa's thing, im waiting for the question to pop out, my dad is bisexual and has been with his partner for almost 20 years now, so its not like Papa-Trent is going anywhere.

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Ugh... I can never, ever imagine doing that when you have children to take care of. I'm so sorry.
*I* personally would skip the suicide part as long as possible and talk to a professional about when/how to go about telling her. I'm sure there's a million books on this thing.


The military was fighting to free my people from camps and locking up yours. GG government.


Our daily lives teach my children their identity. Prayers when you wake up, go back to bed, food, new clothes, the kaddish for their brother, reading labels to see if they can eat something. It's every part of our life.
Since I homeschool, when we were learning about immigration it was natural to teach her about why we came her, why Nana's family had to change their last name. Which of course lead to talking about The Bad Man who didn't like certain people and killed lots of them. So far we've really only done it from the children's point of view. I've let her watch movies on the kindertransport. And all of that tied into our regular talks on racism. Some people don't like other groups of people and some people won't like us because of who we are. That's just the way life is.
She knows we're moving to Israel and she can't wait (Because they have a BEACH! ). The girls have a talking doll that speaks hebrew. I guess I don't put a whole lot of effort into "You Are This!" We just are.

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