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[quote=Anonymous]I feel your pain.

My four year old goes to a very mixed daycare where she is one of a few white kids in her class.  I work in an industry dominated by African American professionals, and have spent a lot of my adult life as the only white woman in the room.  Our church is really mixed. We have tons of books and media with characters who are not white, and what does my daughter say at the dinner table one night: "I don't like brown people."

Some of her best friends are brown, and they are incredibly sweet kids! We've watched that Daniel Tiger episode a lot, but the big thing we are doing is the Nurture Shock thing, so saying things like: "sometimes people are mean to other people because they have brown skin, that's not nice, we aren't mean to people because they have brown skin." "Sometimes people with light skin tell people with brown skin they can't plan, that's mean and it makes people with brown skin sad.  We aren't mean to people because they have brown skin." Repeat, repeat, repeat. The Nurture Shock people stress that saying stuff like "we are all the same" is too vague for little kids.

For my daughter, I think some of it is Frozen-related.  Daughter is blue eyed and blond and loves Elsa and wants to be Elsa, and it was post-Frozen that she started saying stuff like "I like having light eyes, I like having light hair."

From everything I've read, it is developmentally typical, but it sucks.[/quote]

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