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Reply to "White parents: what are you teaching your white preschool age children about racism?"
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[quote=Anonymous]We haven't had explicit conversations with our almost-4-year-old about race, but we try to expose both of our children to a wide variety of people and cultures that are different from ours. We send our kids to a diverse school, live in a diverse neighborhood, we have family friends of different races, and we take them to African American doctors (our pediatric dentist and one of the pediatriatricans at our practice). We have age-appropriate books in our house depicting main characters of different races. When my older child was in K, we started talking about MLK, Rosa Parks, Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. We read books together about those people and events, and that provided a good starting point for discussions about how African Americans are still treated differently just because of the color of their skin. We talk about how it's important to treat everyone the way we'd want to be treated, and to speak up if we see someone being treated unfairly. [/quote]
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