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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Certainly haven’t found this for my child with special needs but adults are also entirely unaccepting of him too, so it’s not being taught. It’s all “be kind” to people with wheelchairs for example but be as mean as you feel like it to children with cognitive issues etc. Lots of work to be done on that front. Acceptance isn’t innate for some things. [/quote]

This is such a good point. I have encountered this in many areas of life. Many people pride themselves on being very accepting of other races or sexualities, for instance, but have an obvious and visceral distaste for poverty, for instance. That gets passed on to kids easily and often without a word being spoken.

Personally I think it is better to teach/demonstrate empathy than to be proactive about talking about tolerance. My goal is for my kid to be able to respond to people who are different than her by withholding judgment. It doesn't actually matter to me if her friend group looks like a Benetton commercial, but I want to teach her humility and empathy so that her response to people who are different is something like "Huh, I'm not familiar with that but I probably just don't know enough about it to understand." I think that's a more useful skill.[/quote]

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