Parent Driven Development
Parent Driven Development
Parent Driven Development
047: Black Lives Matter
40 minutes Posted Jun 24, 2020 at 9:00 am.
Black Lives Matter Movement
How NOT to raise racist kids
Exposing pictures, graphics and videos to your children, no matter the age. What's appropriate?
How to talk to young kids about BLM
Rallies, protests and how to support
How can we make our world better together
Genius / Fail moments
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Parent Driven Development
Episode 047: Black Lives Matter, How to be Anti-Racist, How to Talk to Your Kids about BLM
Allison and Kwu both have young kids, so conversations are slightly different
Gender inequality talks
Explaining to kids how and why people are treated differently in different areas
Changing the language in the house: racism, violence, hate
Protesters getting arrested
Bail rates vary depending on race
Children are very intuitive and understand more than we think
Bi-racial and how they are often judged by their outer appearance
Comfortability amongst couples and how to lean into these conversations with their children
Different forms of support during BLM
COVID is still relevant
Amplifying POC voices
Daily threads on educational resources, city statuses, anti-racism resources, action items
Opening the conversation about anti-racism with friends, family, community members
Focusing on the growth of our children to be anti-racist
Allison’s son struggles with life after the virus as he starts to jump on their nerves from a relaxed approach at the beginning of quarantine #fail
KWu focuses on finding a chinese immersion school for her son but it he jumps into the wrong level and doesn’t understand much and is a bit of a mess from lunch right before #fail
RESOURCES: BLM and how to talk to you kids about racism
Anti-Racism Resources
Black Lives Matter for Families
Webinars for Anti-Racism
WOKE Kindergarten
How to Talk to Your Kids About Racism
Books on Social Justice for Young Readers
Raising Race Conscious Children
Talking About Race: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture
BOOKS: These are books that we found to be helpful in unlearning old beliefs and learning more about modern day racism.
A Kids Book About Racism
So You Want To Talk About Race
How to Be an Antiracist
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
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Allison McMillan
Katherin Wu