You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 3, Episode 20.

Five Tips for Talking to Children About the News.

Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home.

First-name basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in

your family and a changemaker in your community.

Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the world we want,

a world that reflects our values

of inclusion, compassion, and courage. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited

to be on this journey with you. Hello, First Name Basis, fam. I am so glad you are here. Okay, I don't know about you, but the news has felt

really overwhelming lately. And not just lately, actually, now that I think about it, it's been

quite a while. A year, more than a year, four years? I don't know. It just feels like it is

current event after current event and not usually the happy, exciting kind. Mostly the really hard,

the really sad, the really soul-crushing kind. Oh my goodness. I have felt overwhelmed by the news and I can imagine that our

children are feeling similarly. So I thought it might be helpful if I put together five tips that we

can turn to when we need to talk to our children about current events. Now, this can be your own children or this might

be children in your classroom. Some of these tips I took from when I was teaching, the first time that

the last president, I'll say, was elected was when I was in the classroom teaching. And so I felt like there was a lot of unprecedented

news happening that I had to talk to seven and eight year olds about. So some of these tips are just

things that I have learned from experience, the things that I have found work best. And then some of

them are things that I was able to research and find family psychologists

who make suggestions about how to go about this age appropriately with our children.

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