An app that cares

<p>When her oldest child, Hans, was born in 2017, Lynn VanderWielen, who is Dutch American, initially described him to strangers as &ldquo;half Dutch, a quarter Russian, and a quarter Nigerian.&rdquo; But that didn&rsquo;t quite feel right. Nor did she know what language&nbsp;<em>was</em>&nbsp;appropriate. Then, when Hans was a few months old, she had a revelation while breastfeeding. It suddenly occurred to her that the questions she had about mixed race identity weren&rsquo;t really about Hans.</p> <p>&ldquo;This is a&nbsp;<em>me&nbsp;</em>issue,&rdquo; she said to herself. &ldquo;I need to educate myself more.&rdquo;</p> <p>Digging into the literature, she quickly realized that &ldquo;doing the fraction thing&rdquo; was not honoring her son as a whole person. He was both black and white: Russian, Dutch and Nigerian all at once, not parceled out in pieces. &ldquo;I had to learn and unlearn a lot of stuff,&rdquo; as she explained in a recent phone interview.</p> <p><a href="https://kristalbrentzook.medium.com/an-app-that-cares-70e17becfb49"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
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