Parenting across cultures requires more than just instinct.
Get insights, tools, and support for navigating cultural differences from Melina Gac Levin.
The hard part isn’t parenting… It’s parenting together.
When you and your partner come from different cultural backgrounds, parenting decisions can feel fraught. Do we do it your way or mine? Who’s “right”? What does respect or independence even look like in this family?
Most advice tells you to pick a method or defer to an “expert.” Pueblo offers something else: space to notice, reflect, and shape a parenting approach that’s yours together.
At Pueblo, I help you name and align your parenting values so you’re not stuck in silent standoffs or choosing between extremes. Because you aren’t just raising kids.
You’re building a family culture.
Start with our free guide:
From Inherited to Intentional
Raising kids across cultures can bring both joy and unexpected tension.
Our free guide helps you understand how your upbringing shapes your parenting, and how to build an approach that reflects your values and your family’s unique culture.
Download the guide and start parenting with more clarity.
Make space for the tension. Discover the depth.
You’re trying to honor the past, while building something new. That takes more than instincts—it takes courage, reflection, and support.
Surface Tension is your twice-monthly reminder that you’re not doing this alone.
Surface Tension is Melina Gac Levin’s twice-monthly newsletter for parents in multicultural relationships who are navigating parenting differences with thoughtfulness and care.
Through personal story, cultural reflection, and child development insight, you'll explore how your upbringing shapes your parenting instincts—and how to raise your child with more curiosity, clarity, and connection.
This isn’t another expert telling you what to do about sleep or screen time. It’s a letter to the part of you that’s trying really hard.
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At Pueblo, we’re creating a space for parents in multicultural families to name their values, move through conflict, and raise children in a way that reflects who they are. You're invited.
Meet your multicultural parenting guide
Hi, I’m Melina—
an educator, child development
specialist, and mamá of 2
I combine early childhood expertise with deep experience supporting multicultural families through the joys and challenges of raising kids together.
Whether you're navigating discipline, language, sleep, food, or extended family roles, I help you move from friction to shared clarity, without picking sides or ignoring what matters to you.
As a parent in a multicultural family, I know how it can feel to sort through conflicting instincts and inherited ideas. Like that eye-twitch that shows up whenever your partner tell your kid “good job” or the knot in your stomach when they casually bring up discipline in a way that feels just…. wrong. That’s why I help parents like you build a shared parenting approach rooted in research, mutual respect, and the culture you're creating together.
