Diverse toys for kids who don’t play with dolls?
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Anonymous
| Have you thought about green plastic toy soldiers? |
Anonymous
| When you color or draw with your son, don't always draw white people. Get the "Colors of My Friends" crayons by crayola. |
Anonymous
They are, but, you have to choose sets that have diverse skin tones and genders--some of their lines still skew largely white. |
Anonymous
| How about actual children from your neighborhood? Oh, wait.. |
Anonymous
OP here. I don’t know if you’re referring to COVID...? Like “oh wait we can’t go outside?” Or are you assuming that we live in an all white neighborhood? Because we don’t. At all. |
Anonymous
| Dolls and toys aren’t going to make a difference. Consider the schools and house of worship you choose and consider the friends you make. Children learn from what they see. You can have all the multicultural toys in the world, but if you choose the house in the whitest neighborhood because the schools have the highest test scores and lowest FARMS rate and you tend to socialize with people who look just like you, your kids will do the same. |
Anonymous
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My child gets the Because of Them we Can boxes on a monthly basis. There are activities, products, curriculum based on people of color. It's a good learning tool that goes beyond what kids learn during Black History Month. The age range is 5-12.
https://www.becauseofthemwecan.com/pages/get-botwc-box |
Anonymous
| Playmobil is great. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
NP but I think PP is implying that you seem really out of touch if you truly think that just buying your kid a black doll is going to make any sort of difference. The best way for your children to learn about diversity is to be exposed to diversity - so if you live in a diverse neighborhood and have a diverse group of friends, then you're already doing one thing right. |
Anonymous
| Diverse puzzles. They’re local too. Can’t testify to quality yet as I just placed an order: https://puzzlehuddle.com/ |
Anonymous
| Black athlete posters if they are into sports. My basketball obsessed son loves his Jordan poster. |
Anonymous
You think a poster in your million dollar home creates diversity? |
Anonymous
| I also have 2 boys, neither into dolls. Instead we watch diverse programming. Their favorite Spider-Man is Miles from Into the Spiderverse. We also watch movies like Moana and CoCo. And I love the Pixar shorts on Disney + (many have underlying messages about things like immigration, autism, coming out as gay, etc.). I realize that isn’t specifically about racial diversity, but it’s a good gateway to conversations. We also have a diverse friend group so hopefully they will grow to also value diverse friendships themselves. |
Anonymous
| Mancala and other games from non-Western cultures. Multicultural puzzles. |