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[quote=Anonymous]In case the pp that asked some of the original questions comes back and sees this - not sure anyone answered your question about how to have these conversations about race. First, it’s normal to feel hesitant but preschool and K is actually not too young at all to talk about it and you will be surprised at how capable they are at even understanding the systemic pieces. I’ve been talking about it since preschool and my first grader has a pretty solid handle (at the appropriate developmental level) of it now as a result.

Here is my favorite book that will give you language to use: https://a.co/d/hCigXiG
Keep it simple in preschool - Black people and people with darker skin have been treated unfairly in our country and still are sometimes. Only because of the color of their skin. That’s called racism. It’s wrong. It isn’t ok. 
That’s the very very basics on racism. But for systemic I literally will say things like if we are in a neighborhood noticing things like, you might notice that the city doesn’t do as much to take care of this neighborhood - remember we talked about how black people have been treated unfairly? They still are sometimes and it affects whether they can get jobs, find healthy food. Etc etc

Your kids notice that there are more Black and brown people who are homeless in our particular areas, if you don’t explain these things they will come up with their own explanation in their head or get it from someone else. So you can start simply helping them understand that there are lots of things in our world that impact those around us in different ways. When we see it in our life we talk about it openly as a family and now our kids get it and can identify it.

For your kindergartner I also highly recommend the following: https://us.yotoplay.com/products/the-extraordinary-lives-audio-collection-1
If you don’t have a yoto I can’t recommend it enough and I truly can’t recommend these yoto cards enough. They do a FANTASTIC job at explaining racism, discrimination, protest so many things and my son loved listening to them and it’s sprinkled in. He learned a lot.

This book is also on police violence, great for kids and has a whole section for parents on how to talk to your kids about these topics and racism etc. https://a.co/d/hacRUvJ

The authors also have one on immigration where a child’s father is arrested by ICE which for the pp who had a heavily Spanish speaking school may be appropriate especially right now: https://a.co/d/g9BISxc

Your child can handle it, I promise. It is better as the parent to be having the conversations than them hearing things at school or seeing things and trying to make sense themselves.

While I’m at it in case helpful to anyone here is my favorite book on food insecurity for kids: https://a.co/d/0ehJZj3
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