"Synergy, in general, may be defined as two or more things functioning together to produce a result not independently obtainable. That is, if elements A and B are combined, the result is greater than the expected arithmetic sum A+B." (Wikipedia)
That's my kid. My son. He's greater than the two elements combined. That said he is not independent of me or of his father. He is the mix of us both, the good and the bad.
People fall back on their eyesight often and what most people see is that my son is a mix of a white mother and a black father. He is bi-racial, multi-racial, mixed-race, ethnically diverse and many other labels too.
The question this BLOG aims to address is how I go about raising this synergistic element of mine. What is my responsibility? Who influences me? Who influences him? What am I missing? What can I dismiss? Who can I reach out to? How will things change?
