{"id":295303,"date":"2025-06-15T16:47:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T16:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/talking-to-young-kids-about-race\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T16:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T16:47:29","slug":"talking-to-young-kids-about-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=295303","title":{"rendered":"Talking to Young Kids About Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>The best part about talking to young kids about race in America &#8211; and particularly racism &#8211; is just how absurd it sounds to them. <\/p>\n<p>I fall into just about every privileged class in America: straight, white, upper middle-class, male. I don&#8217;t ever remember talking to my parents about race; at least, not when I was young. I grew up in rural Minnesota, which was about as homogeneous as you&#8217;re likely to find in the U.S. For years, I was under the impression that my graduating high school class contained one black student. Then, during my ten-year high school reunion, my wife pointed out that the &#8220;black&#8221; student was Southeast Asian. Up until that point, the fact had not eluded me, but also a number of my high school friends, most of whom held post-graduate degrees by that point. Point is, I&#8217;m no real authority on race relations in America. <\/p>\n<p>I can say that my conversation with our four year-old about racism was pretty straightforward. I was trying to explain to her why people were protesting, which first covered what a protest is (a way for people to say they&#8217;re upset about something). Then, when it got to racism, we started with the fact that some people have different colored skin &#8211; a pretty uncontroversial idea. And then the fact that some people get treated differently because of their skin color. She seemed to think this was patently stupid: &#8220;but they&#8217;re the same.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Yes. Those people that treat them differently are wrong.<\/p>\n<p>And that was about it. At some point I expect we&#8217;ll get into the idea that we should speak out to tell those wrong people that they are wrong, but I figured that could wait for another time. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re struggling with how to have the conversation, as usual, Elmo and Sesame Street have covered it pretty well <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/06\/06\/app-news-section\/cnn-sesame-street-race-town-hall-app-june-6-2020-app\/index.html\">here<\/a>. There are also a host of children&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/30so2uq\">books <\/a>on the subject, though you may want to do some screening to match the right book with your kid. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/daddispatches.com\/2020\/06\/09\/talking-to-young-kids-about-race\/\">Talking to Young Kids About Race<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/daddispatches.com\">Dad Dispatches<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best part about talking to young kids about race in America &#8211; and particularly racism &#8211; is just how absurd it sounds to them. I fall into just about every privileged class in America: straight, white, upper middle-class, male. 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