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Megan Dowd Lambert

Megan Dowd Lambert

Wanting to Give the World to My Children (Or, How It Felt to Send My Black Son and Daughter Abroad…

When I was nervous about sending my oldest son, Rory, to preschool, I came across a quotation, attributed to writer, Elizabeth Stone, that…

Sep 6, 2017

Wanting to Give the World to My Children (Or, How It Felt to Send My Black Son and Daughter Abroad…

Sep 6, 2017

Megan Dowd Lambert

(Almost) the Only Brown People at the Reunion: Raising Kids of Color in a Predominantly White…

A few years ago, some of my children started noting that when we attend my father’s family reunions they are “the only brown people there,”…

Jul 30, 2017

(Almost) the Only Brown People at the Reunion: Raising Kids of Color in a Predominantly White…

Jul 30, 2017

Megan Dowd Lambert

The Gifts of a Not-So-White Christmas

My husband and I are both lapsed Catholics, and we celebrate Christmas in our multiracial, adoptive, blended family with an emphasis on…

Dec 20, 2016

The Gifts of a Not-So-White Christmas

Dec 20, 2016

Megan Dowd Lambert

Living with This

When I was nine-months pregnant with my youngest son I went through the stereotypical nesting phase that strikes many women. I cleaned out…

Nov 11, 2016

Living with This

Nov 11, 2016

Megan Dowd Lambert

“I’ve never had a White baby before…”

EmbraceRace wanted to know the difference that racial difference makes within families. We reached out to people with one or more siblings…

Oct 4, 2016

“I’ve never had a White baby before…”

Oct 4, 2016

Megan Dowd Lambert

Reading Mike Jung’s “Unidentified Suburban Object” with My Kids, Part II

In which an alien inspires reflections on transracial adoption

Aug 19, 2016

Reading Mike Jung’s “Unidentified Suburban Object” with My Kids, Part II

Aug 19, 2016

Megan Dowd Lambert

Reading Mike Jung’s “Unidentified Suburban Object” with My Kids, Part I

In which we talk about confronting “weird questions” (or racial microagressions) with a little help from … an alien

Jul 27, 2016

Reading Mike Jung’s “Unidentified Suburban Object” with My Kids, Part I

Jul 27, 2016

Megan Dowd Lambert

Real Sisters and Brothers

Witnessing my children become brothers and sisters, not through shared genes but through shared experience, has been one of the most…

Jun 17, 2016

Real Sisters and Brothers

Jun 17, 2016

Megan Dowd Lambert

My Responses and Yours to “The Tiresome Question I’m Often Asked about My Brown Kids: ‘Where Are…

I was hesitant when Melissa Giraud and Andrew Grant-Thomas invited me to be a Staff Blogger with EmbraceRace. Don’t get me wrong: I’m…

May 27, 2016

My Responses and Yours to “The Tiresome Question I’m Often Asked about My Brown Kids: ‘Where Are…

May 27, 2016

Megan Dowd Lambert

The Tiresome Question I’m Often Asked About My Brown Kids: “Where Are They From?”

I’m a white mother of six children, five of whom are children of color, and four of whom came home to our family through foster-adoption…

Apr 29, 2016

The Tiresome Question I’m Often Asked About My Brown Kids: “Where Are They From?”

Apr 29, 2016

Megan Dowd Lambert

Megan Dowd Lambert

Megan writes about kids' books & writes them too. She teaches Children's Literature at Simmons College and is a mother of 7 in a multiracial, blended family.

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