With my last couple of posts I have been discussing transracial adoption, and two articles from Adoption.com that discuss how to prepare for a transracial adoption and how to build a strong sense of cultural identity in a transracially adopted child.

I feel that these topics are important, not only for those adoptive parents just starting out their transracial family, but also to those well-established transracial families. These resources are sort of like a refresher on child proofing or first aid or anything else that is essential to parenting. It can be easy to get into a “parenting groove” and let some areas “slip”. Parents in transracial families need to be aware of racial issues and to frequently evaluate their lives and those of their children to ensure that we really are doing all that we can to build a child with a healthy sense of racial identity, even when our days are full of worrying about school and friends and soccer and getting them to eat vegetables and how much tv they are watching and eight million other things.

Adopting.org provides adoptive parents with a great list of resources that are all relevant to cross-cultural or transracial parenting, here. This extensive list of resources includes links to personal stories from adult adoptees, ask the adoption expert sites, cultural tours information, culture and adoption camp information, a cultural mentoring program for transracial families, gift ideas for multicultural or multiracial families, an email group for cross-cultural families and quite a few other great resources.

When I browsed through the list there were quite a few sites listed that I was unaware of, and I am looking forward to checking them out in detail. If you have a great resources for cross-cultural or transracial family, whether it is an informational website, a blog you like to read or anything else, feel free to leave me a comment. :)