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[quote=Anonymous]+1 for Our Skin a first conversation about race. My 3yo has been choosing it as a bedtime book every few nights for the past couple weeks. It feels awkward to me to talk that directly about racism at this age but it has great language and it’s giving me some practice talking about difficult topics. When my daughter first picked up the book, she only read as far as the melanin explanation and then was clearly satisfied that she had gotten what she wanted to know from the book. I was happy to follow her lead and only answer the questions she had at that point. Six months later she started picking it up again and wanted to read to the end. It gives a good little parable of dealing with racism and unkindness by calling it out when something is not fair and the kids coming together with a trusted adult to learn how to treat everyone with kindness and stand up for one another. It gives kids a social script for any kind of bullying or injustice. [/quote]
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