Khyber Attack
and
Ahmed Rashid, journalist based in Islamabad, Pakistan and author Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia (Penguin, 2003) and Taliban (Yale University Press)
- on the increased violence in Afghanistan
» "Afghans ...
Fire Side Chat
- on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's fire side chats to the country at the time of war
» The Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
Sensitivity Training
- says curiosity, not malice, prompts insensitive questions to adoptive parents
Open Phones
Feedback: Adoption
Subject: doesn't just happen to adoptive families
a note on the very personal and sometimes rude questions that strangers will ask about other people's children:
my family background is quite diverse. black american, native american, portuguese, italian, and french on my mother's side; black american, jamaican, and senegalese on my father's side. NO ONE in my family is the same skin tone, or even has the same facial features. My point is: you just have to deal with other people's ignorance in as succinct a manner as possible. be as polite as you can while you let them know that they are being rude, or that there is a better way to ask whatever question they are posing. and your kids will learn to handle themselves assuredly because they KNOW who they are and who their family is.
-SW
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