My biracial child and I don't look like each other, so I'm sometimes mistaken as her nanny
![Jen Watt, right, with her then four-year-old daughter, Nomi. A girl curls up next to a woman while sitting on the couch. They’re reading a book together.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7212942.1716492710!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/jen-watt-and-daughter.jpg)
When a stranger asked Jen Watt why her child didn’t look like her, it forced the mother and daughter into an uncomfortable conversation about race, identity and belonging before either of them was ready.