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The Cultural Coach: Labels are for packages, not for grandkids - African American News Today - EIN News

Tweet Share Pin Email By Linda S. Wallace Dear Cultural Coach: Why do people put labels on their grandchildren? I hear people make statements like “my local grandkids, my Italian grandkids, my Mexican grandkids … my Jewish ready-made (adopted) grandkids.” I personally find this extremely inappropriate and have since learned that many parents of those...

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