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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do. Not. Do. This.[/quote]

+1 
You can sidestep these questions. Thats a great book because it shows a little black girl achieving her dream, but it’s meant to inspire all children, not to teach 3 year olds about society’s evils[/quote]

So how would you answer the 3 yr old’s question, “why did the teacher say that Mae couldn’t be as astronaut?”  And why did the other kids laugh at Mae?

I totally get where OP is coming from.  However as an African American mother, there is no sidestepping the race issue.  [/quote]

+2.  When your child is Brown there is no way to sidestep racism either.  [/quote]

+3. Only possible to sidestep, ignore, or put off for later if you’re white - which should say something about the need for white parents to find ways to talk about these issues. [/quote]

+4. I get that some people are turned off by ‘virtue signaling’ but please consider taking time on this because it’s exactly the sidestepping, avoiding and silence on these issues that allow kids to form beliefs and attitudes that perpetuate sexism and racism. They internalize based on their and their peers rationale and without an adult interjecting with some supportive age appropriate guidance, these beliefs grow deeper with age, starting from age 2 based on recent research.[/quote]

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