Love your ideas and am excited to read more. We have 12 children, 5 adopted and 1 who is our child while technically just being under our care and legal guardian. No differentiation is made. Multi racial and multicultural. We celebrate and enjoy the heritage and music and art of all as a family. One thing I have stressed is that while they must respect all, they do not need to blindly take the words of other adults as genuine. I want them to question, while being polite and respectful, those whose ideas are shallow or narrow. We may not agree with others, but we don't judge or belittle because of differences. Many differences can expand our thinking while not necessarily forcing us to change our beliefs. We have tried hard not to raise children. We want to raise loving, responsible, hardworking, generous, caring, and giving adults. Thus that is how we treat them. We encourage responsibility and respect, meaning increased responsibility and privilege as they show they can handle it. And as such, we try to model adulthood as not being stodgy or dull, but playful and fun and creative and interesting... like society sees a child. So they don't miss on the joy, but gain the maturity and social awareness that is often credited to adults.