'A must read for all educators, parents, and everyone involved in the education of children. Inspiring!' - Lenia Tavares, Mum, Foreign Languages Teacher, Language and Communication Impairment in Children Specialist, B.Sc., M.Sc.Chapters:1. Inventing identities for our multicultural children by Elisavet Arkolaki2. The debate over multiculturalism and what we can learn from the Canadianmodel by Elisavet Arkolaki3. My identity crisis growing up in numerous cultures by Yui Mikuriya4. Why urging our children to embrace different cultures and learn differentlanguages matters by Dr. Ute Limacher-Riebold5. The 5 most common challenges a parent faces while raising a multiculturalkid and how to address them by Vivian Chiona, Dr. Brigitte Vittrup, ElisavetArkolaki6. 5 mistakes parents make when trying to raise bilingual children by RitaRosenback7. Language delays in multilingual children: what are they and what to do aboutthem by Dr. Mary-Pat O'Malley-Keighran8. Raising multilingual children with additional needs abroad by Dr. UteLimacher-Riebold9. Confident moms raise confident kids - On finding your tribe abroad by LisaFerland10. Media influences on children by Dr. Brigitte Vittrup11. The impact of culture on the education of the young by Brian Vassallo12. Promoting tolerance, practical tips - What we should do to enhance religioustolerance at home (parents) and at school (teachers) by Brian Vassallo13. Dealing with racism - perspective of a white transracial adoptive parent byBeth Hall (available in the free ebook edition)14. Not just "white parents" with kids of color" - The importance of racial identitywork for parents by Dr. Gina Miranda Samuels (available in the free ebook edition)15. Crossing the Deep Cultural Divide by Tamara Yousry16. The stories you should tell your multicultural kid every day by Elisavet Arkolaki17. A list of websites and blogs about multilingualism & multiculturalism The same eBook can be downloaded in a PDF format by subscribing to my newsletter list http: //eepurl.com/dvnij9 or joining my Facebook group https: //www.facebook.com/groups/249812552386188/ Thank you for reading!Elisavet Arkolakiwww.maltamum.com

Research continues to uncover early childhood as a crucial time when we set the stage for who we will become. In the last decade, we have also seen a sudden massive shift in America’s racial makeup with the majority of the current under-5 age population being children of color. Asian and multiracial are the fastest growing self-identified groups in the United States. More than 2 million people indicated being mixed race Asian on the 2010 Census. Yet, young multiracial Asian children are vastly underrepresented in the literature on racial identity. Why? And what are these children learning about themselves in an era that tries to be ahistorical, believes the race problem has been “solved,” and that mixed race people are proof of it? This book is drawn from extensive research and interviews with sixty-eight parents of multiracial children. It is the first to examine the complex task of supporting our youngest around being “two or more races” and Asian while living amongst “post-racial” ideologies.

'Bringing up a Bilingual Child' is aimed at (existing or soon-to-be) parents in families where more than one language is spoken, as well as anyone in the extended circle of family and friend of such multilingual families, as well as for anyone coming into contact with them. The aim of the book is to help multilingual families to create a supportive environment for children in which they naturally grow up to speak more than one language. The intention is to give you an easy-to-read-and-use guide to multilingual parenting, providing motivation, ideas, advice and answers to any questions parents may have.

The world's FIRST children's picture book by Elisavet Arkolaki and illustrated entirely by Platon with life-size spray paint graffiti, painted in public primary schools. A fun, heartwarming story with award-winning art portraying children from all six inhabited continents.

A book on those who know and use two or more languages: Who are they? How do they do it?

Weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis, Same Family, Different Colors explores the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Colorism and color bias—the preference for or presumed superiority of people based on the color of their skin—is a pervasive and damaging but rarely openly discussed phenomenon. In this unprecedented book, Lori L. Tharps explores the issue in African American, Latino, Asian American, and mixed-race families and communities by weaving together personal stories, history, and analysis. The result is a compelling portrait of the myriad ways skin-color politics affect family dynamics in the United States. Tharps, the mother of three mixed-race children with three distinct skin colors, uses her own family as a starting point to investigate how skin-color difference is dealt with. Her journey takes her across the country and into the lives of dozens of diverse individuals, all of whom have grappled with skin-color politics and speak candidly about experiences that sometimes scarred them. From a Latina woman who was told she couldn’t be in her best friend’s wedding photos because her dark skin would “spoil” the pictures, to a light-skinned African American man who spent his entire childhood “trying to be Black,” Tharps illuminates the complex and multifaceted ways that colorism affects our self-esteem and shapes our lives and relationships. Along with intimate and revealing stories, Tharps adds a historical overview and a contemporary cultural critique to contextualize how various communities and individuals navigate skin-color politics. Groundbreaking and urgent, Same Family, Different Colors is a solution-seeking journey to the heart of identity politics, so that this more subtle “cousin to racism,” in the author’s words, will be exposed and confronted.

When a little girl nicknamed "Cartwheel" moves to a different country with her family to be safe she has a hard time adjusting to her new home.