Our family is not "color blind"--we don't think anyone should be. We are not all the same color, we don't all look the same, and that is okay. But we haven't focused a lot on the color of our skin, or of other people's because it just doesn't come up a lot yet. When it does we try to talk about the differences in all of our skin--between the 5 of us there is quite a spectrum (especially when Cambel and I have a tan:)).
I am aware however that we look "different" than the average family and I sometimes wonder how my kids process that. So when Ada brought home this drawing I was interested in her description of her picture of our family. I have to admit I braced myself a little for a conversation about skin color (I always want to make sure I do those "right.")
And then she said, "you can tell which one Oliver is because he is so little."
Of course.
I know it probably speaks more to her age than anything I have done as a parent, but that made me happy. Happy that we are just a family--maybe a little different, but just a family. And happy that my kids, even though they aren't color blind, see us that way too--just a family.
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