u/Fragmentedmindwar

Hi! I have a biracial child of whom I absolutely adore. I love being a mom. I love my partner. I am not a person of color myself. I feel that I have a huge gap between the struggles my child may face or partner vs myself. And I want to educate myself on these issues so that I can better support and teach my child to love themselves for who they are ALWAYS. Also to support my child and partner. It means a lot that I am a healthy support.

I want to know resources to help educate me on struggles of parenting biracial kids in a mixed home, books on racism and struggles people face and things I can do as a parent for my child and also their friends and peers. (Also I want to support anyone else in this ugly fight).

Any books, any websites, any comments and things that could be helpful. Please let me know.

Thank you

I would like to be current on the healthiest guidelines and recommendations for parenting.

Ones that address:
Common behavior issues and how to handle them
Healthy parenting styles
Supporting your child to be a healthy adult
Raising a biracial child in a healthy way
Socializing
Milestones
Ages 0-18

I’m aware that biracial children can face unique challenges. I just have kids and want to stay current and do my best. Any recommendations I would be totally interested in!

(I came here because I wanted to find books or websites or publications that are current and not outdated and science backed).

Thanks

Hello all- I made a post earlier on a new guy I got from the petstore and how he was sick immediately after.

He has a corneal ulcer and ECE. They are doing bloodwork and that will wait for a callback. He had mites and parasites.

So- I think we can doll him up. We are waiting to make sure his bloodwork’s are good though like adrenal function, liver etc before we make a final decision.

Thinks are looking good though

We just bought a ferret and we adore him.

We bought him from a petstore it’s been less than a week. Since we got him he has had one eye that gunks.he is 9 weeks old supposedly had all shots (sold from petstore) and checked for FHV. He drinks, has loads of energy, eats well. Comes out to play four times a day in half hour 45 min intervals.

When we got him he was kept with a cedar hide. He no longer has that- only has fleece bedding and hammock and ferret safe toys.

I have a video of his eye and I’ll try to get a photo as well.

I keep trying to research about his eye and it said the eye can be very serious sign of illness. It also says it can be pink eye.

Is this a return the ferret scenario I still have 25 days to return. I don’t want to take on a pet that’s already critically ill at 9 weeks old when I purchased him I was told he was in good health.