A number of resources for parents and caregivers looking for help with starting a conversation around racial injustice and recent events in the news with their children.
As author and New York Times columnist Charles Blow writes, “We must acknowledge—with eyes and minds wide open—the world as it is if we want to change it.” Read this article on how parents can bring up the topic of race with their children.
This is a working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources. The goal is to facilitate growth for individuals to become allies, and eventually accomplices for anti-racist work. These resources have been ordered in an attempt to make them more accessible.
Take a look at an online library of books on racial issues. Click on the cover of a book you would like to read in the presentation to be taken to that book.
When children are chronically anxious, even the most well-meaning parents can fall into a negative cycle and, not wanting a child to suffer, actually exacerbate the youngster’s anxiety. It happens when parents, anticipating a child’s fears, try to protect her from them. Here are pointers for helping children escape the cycle of anxiety.
As cities and social media explode with anger over the killing of yet another black man at the hands of police, worried parents struggle with how to protect their children from seeing the worst of the violence while simultaneously explaining the ravages of racism.
This is a working document for scaffolding anti-racism resources. The goal is to facilitate growth for individuals to become allies, and eventually accomplices for anti-racist work. These resources have been ordered in an attempt to make them more accessible.
