When and How to Talk to Your Kids About Race
, a story about a boy who finds the courage to jump off the diving board thanks to his dad’s supportive actions. It’s a beautiful story about taking time to find your own kind of bravery, something that all kids need to embrace. Next time your child is weary about going down a new slide, try saying, “Remember how Jabari took his time on the diving board? Let’s do that now.
If you notice that your child is identifying another child by the color of their skin, step in and steer the identification in a non-physical direction, say by learning the child’s name or what the child is doing . “The brain responds differently when you say, ‘this is ‘Sally,’ or ‘Susie,’” says Pickron. “Studies show that racial bias decreases when preschoolers learn people’s names.”
Like the children’s books you read, these conversations will increase in complexity, Anderson says. You wouldn’t followwith Shakespeare—so you can’t expect to expedite conversations about race and racism. The important thing is to start small and build on it. As letters turn into words, then sentences and complex ideas, so does understanding of race.More likely than not, you go to the same playgrounds, the same coffee shops and the same grocery stores in your neighborhood. It makes sense.
Decide what that might mean for your family. Perhaps it’s attending a protest, or hanging a sign in your window. Racial equity advocate Adelaide Lancaster, who participated in the, says her daughter still remembers when their family put out a #BlackLivesMatter sign in acknowledgement of Michael Brown’s death—and she was just 4 years old at the time.
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