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“That’s not fair!” and the concept of protest

February 24, 2015 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Elementary School, Race, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM, STRATEGY: FAIRNESS/UNFAIRNESS, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, Toddlers, Uncategorized, White Privilege

by Sachi Feris One of my daughter’s favorite activities is playing with her vintage Fisher Price people from the 1970’s. At one-and-a-half, she spent happy hours placing them in and out of her vintage school bus…but it proved to be…

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What I did when my son said, “that man looks like a monkey!” on a public bus

February 20, 2015 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Elementary School, Julie Roberts-Phung, Race, STRATEGY: ACKNOWLEDGE PUBLIC VERSUS PRIVATE SPACES, STRATEGY: FAIRNESS/UNFAIRNESS, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, STRATEGY: PARE DOWN THE VARIOUS ISSUES, Uncategorized

by guest blogger Julie Roberts-Phung This post is being re-posted as part of a week-long series highlighting supporters of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), both in their parenting of race-conscious children and their activist work for racial justice. SURJ…

What I say about a children’s book when all the characters are White

February 13, 2015 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Babies, Early Childhood, Elementary School, Race, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, Toddlers, White Privilege

by Sachi Feris Among our children’s books, we have a dozen or so of my childhood favorites that my mom saved. One such classic is “Too Many Mittens” by Florence and Louis Slobodkin, published in 1958. This story is about twin…

What to do when your child comments on a stranger’s physical appearance in public

February 10, 2015 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Elementary School, Race, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: ACKNOWLEDGE PUBLIC VERSUS PRIVATE SPACES, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, STRATEGY: PARE DOWN THE VARIOUS ISSUES, Toddlers, Uncategorized

by Sachi Feris The first time my daughter verbally communicated in public about another person’s physical appearance, we were on an Amtrak train back from visiting friends in Boston. She had just turned two. The ticket collector had an olive…

Why I talk about race when I read with my toddler

January 19, 2015 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Babies, Early Childhood, Elementary School, Race, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, Toddlers

by Sachi Feris Sometimes, I sit down to read a book with my two and half-year-old, and I ask myself if my race-conscious talk is overkill. “Do I have to talk about race every single time we read?” And I…

How I would talk to my future four-year-old about Michael Brown and Eric Garner

January 18, 2015 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Elementary School, Race, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, STRATEGY: PARE DOWN THE VARIOUS ISSUES, Toddlers, White Privilege

by Sachi Feris “There are a lot of people who are sad and mad because a police officer hurt a man who was Black. You know that police officers are supposed to help people, but this police officer hurt a…

“That’s not fair!” and the concept of protest

What I did when my son said, “that man looks like a monkey!” on a public bus

What I say about a children’s book when all the characters are White

What to do when your child comments on a stranger’s physical appearance in public

Why I talk about race when I read with my toddler

How I would talk to my future four-year-old about Michael Brown and Eric Garner

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