https://www.janetlansbury.com/2020/06/raising-anti-racist-children-a-holistic-approach-with-kristen-coggins/ elevating child care Tue, 22 Nov 2022 00:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.janetlansbury.com/2020/06/raising-anti-racist-children-a-holistic-approach-with-kristen-coggins/comment-page-1/#comment-129662 Tue, 27 Oct 2020 20:53:50 +0000 https://www.janetlansbury.com/?p=20240#comment-129662 Krissy’s story about her child on on the playground being told “I can’t play with you because you are brown.” Your daughter told you and you could use this as a teachable moment. What struck me was that the white child probably didn’t go home and say, “Today I told a girl she couldn’t play because she was brown.” Thus, her parents missed the opportunity to have a teachable moment. How can white parents find teachable moments that really connect to their child’s life? When white children are the perpetrators and not the victims, the white child doesn’t get a lesson on racism in that instance. It is because of this that black children continue to get to talk about racism with their children and white families are stuck. This is why we feel like “It’s not improving!” The white children don’t get the lesson if no one is around to tell them, “hey, not okay.”

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