I was recently sitting in my parents’ bedroom with my dad, while he read the newspaper. I was staring at the bookshelf and noticed a book, Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children. I had never noticed it before.
I bid my dad good night, and sat in my bed reading it. It was bizarre, funny and a little uncomfortable, but I couldn’t stop.
Beyond the sometimes silly content of the book, I never thought about my parents even buying a parenting book. My mom and dad have been great parents and I always have had this sense that they knew what they were doing at all times.
Finding and reading this book was a nice reminder that my parents were and are trying to figure things out, just like the rest of us.