Anonymous wrote:What really makes me mad is the total lack of logic involved here. By the time a child starts exhibiting cold symptoms, they've already been contagious for a good 48 hours. Contagion begins in the incubation phase. So sending a child home for a runny nose is just locking the barn door a couple days after the horses were stolen.

It's as if people are willfully stupid, as long as it makes their lives easier.

amen to that!

Anonymous wrote:OP here: thank you so much! it's hard sometimes. People think i'm the nanny. Or if I'm with someone caucasian, they are a relative... I love my ethnicity, but Indians are standoffish, and I'm not sure why. Do they think I don't like being asian. I am not insecure about being asian but asians are the most difficult with me... i'm just being honest.

Mum of "beautiful mixed children" here. I got the nanny look so often at the playground, I became a bit paranoid and was ready for the first person who would openly ask me. I think that would be rude, but people have so far been more restrained they I've expected them to be and my rehearse little speech about diverse families never got to be imposed on someone. It's true it's not easy, but do not let other people's insecurities get to you. Be proud of who you are and the choices you've made.

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for all the feedback- the color is a normal purple- subtle mostly white sneakers though- but still purple.. DS would be aorund 3 when he wears these.. I feel for the PP that said they buy boyish shoes for DD.. i guess we are leaning that way though DD wears such pink girly colors..!!

My DS is 3 and has recently declared that purple was his favorite color. He's pretty adamant about it too. So when your DS is ready to wear these shoes there's some chance he might actually like them. It's too bad that as a society we've decided to ban certain colors for boys and others for girls.

I wouldn't take offense. There's so many things to take offense of when it comes to race and skin color that you should really pick your battles. Don't YOU find it interesting that one of your child has your skin color and your other your husbands. Isn't it amazing how genetics works?
I'm the mom of mixed kids my self; I'm black and DH is white and both kiddos are caramel and people are genuinely curious about what genetics produces. When I get questions about my kids, which is increasingly rare for some reasons, I just find a way to say "yes, aren't mixed kids simply beautiful!", that usually ends it pretty quickly, with a positive spin.

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Anonymous wrote:I definitely would have paid for the gas, yes. If someone else is driving a long distance (and two hours qualifies), it is appropriate and courteous.

Yep, your husband rocks.

and yes, you are being cheap. Sorry, but your husband did the right thing.

Is it one where the director is Haitian?

These posts are so funny! My house is basically clean once a month... the day before our house cleaner comes! Otherwise, it's either a disaster zone or a half disaster.

Start one! When I moved back to the DC area and located in Silver Spring, I didn't know anybody and I was at home with my baby boy. I just posted a message here and DC urban moms and started the playgroup. I ended staying for less than a year but I've made two mums who are now my best friends. Just state what you are looking for and you'll be surprised how other mums in your area might be looking for the same type of interaction. Good luck!