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I understand. We are Jewish and will need to have that conversion with our daughter at some point as well. I remember the first time I learned about the Holocaust — ALL of my nightmares as a child were about Nazis. We will have to tell her that there are people in this country who want her dead.

I don’t recall learning about any of that before I was 6-7 years old, though.

In any case, I will think more about this and am certainly actively looking for more books to include in our collection that have POC characters and discuss these themes. [/quote]

Thanks pp for thinking about it, it makes a lot of sense how you're feeling given your experience. I'm really sorry. For better or worse at least the discussions of race wouldn't lead to her feeling unsafe herself, but is more about empathy towards others and understanding that black people are often treated differently, don't have access to the same things, etc. Things aren't always fair and we don't all get the same shot kind of stuff at the early ages.

It was mentioned above but I've found @hereweeread and @theconciouskid to be really great resources for book lists. It's definitely the long game for sure and many of the deeper discussions are certainly for more age 6-7.[/quote]

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