5.5 Raising Multi-Racial Children
First Name Basis Podcast
Jasmine Bradshaw
5 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Growing up as a mult-racial child, I often felt my racial identity shifting and developing — heck, even as an adult I do!
Navigating what it means to be mult-racial continues to be a journey for me, which is why I was so excited to be able to interview Dr. Jennifer Noble.
Dr. Jenn, as she’s known online, is a licensed psychologist, parent coach and associate professor of psychology, who shares her expertise both in her private practice in Los Angeles and online. She focuses on identity and mixed race experience as she works with mixed race teens, BIPOC women and other marginalized groups.
In our conversation, we discuss:
- The experience many multi-racial children have of shifting identity development.
- How parents can help their multi-racial children prepare to answer questions about their identity.
- Affirming identity in the face of other people’s assumptions.
- How terminology can change based on where the mixed race person is in their identity journey,
- Building resilience in kids and their parents through open communication.
I hope any of you listeners out there who are multi-racial or raising multi-racial kiddos leave listening to this conversation feeling like you can be more fully connected to your family and your identity. And for anyone who is mono-racial, I hope this gives you a better understanding of how you can support the multi-racial people in your life.
Bite-sized Black History is a program that empowers you to teach the little ones you love about brilliant Black Americans who have been largely overlooked by our history books. We featured 12 different people in Season 1 of the program and will feature 12 all new Black Americans in Season 2. And, if you missed Season 1, both seasons will be available for purchase.
Articles, Studies, & Podcasts Referenced in the Episode
Dr. Jenn’s website, which includes information about Mixed Life Academy
Dr. Jenn’s Instagram account @drjennpsych
Dr. Noble’s therapy practice website
Multi-racial Bill of Rights by Dr. Maria Root
“One Drop of Love” by Fanshen Cox
“50 Experiences of Racially Mixed People” by Dr. Maria Root
Video of a mom in England giving her son a shirt to tell him he’s leaving the school where he’s been bullied
Song Credit: “Sleeper” by Steve Adams” and “Dive Down” by VYEN
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 5, Episode 5, Raising Multiracial Children with Dr. Jen Noble. |
| 0:15.2 | Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home. |
| 0:23.4 | First-name basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your |
| 0:28.4 | family and a changemaker in your community. |
| 0:31.5 | Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the world we want, |
| 0:39.3 | a world that reflects our values of inclusion, compassion, and courage. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited |
| 0:46.9 | to be on this journey with you. Hello, First Name Basis fam. I am so glad you are here. Oh my goodness, this episode. I really think that this |
| 1:00.4 | season is like a season of healing for me because I'm pretty sure I'm going to say that about every episode we make. |
| 1:08.7 | Because this episode was like a balm to my soul. I had the opportunity |
| 1:14.2 | to talk to Dr. Jen Noble, who is a clinical psychologist that specializes in identity development |
| 1:20.4 | for multiracial kids. Now, being a black biracial woman myself, I was like, oh my gosh, can I just |
| 1:27.4 | ask you all of my questions? But what I did was I went on myself. I was like, oh my gosh, can I just ask you all of my questions? |
| 1:29.3 | But what I did was I went on Instagram and I asked you all what you wanted to hear from Dr. |
| 1:34.9 | Jen and I got so many amazing questions. I guess I really didn't know how many parents of |
| 1:41.7 | multiracial children or multiracial people themselves were in our first |
| 1:46.0 | name basis family. So I'm just really excited because I know that if you are someone who is |
| 1:52.3 | multiracial or you love someone who is multiracial, you're going to be nodding your head along |
| 1:57.5 | with the things that Dr. Jen is saying and feeling like you're having really big |
| 2:01.6 | mindset shifts and epiphanies throughout this episode because that's how I felt when I was listening |
| 2:07.1 | to her answers. But I want to tell you that even if you are someone who is not multiracial, |
| 2:12.9 | you will still learn so much from Dr. Jen. People who are monoracial, white, black, indigenous, Asian. |
| 2:19.7 | However you identify, you're going to take so much from what she says and what she teaches |
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