3.28: A Real-life Anti-bias Teachable Moment
First Name Basis Podcast
Jasmine Bradshaw
5 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
In this episode I walk you through the anti-bias approach that I took when my daughter came up against something in one of her library books that didn’t align with our family values. Listen in for a concrete example of what it looks like to talk to your children about bias.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 3, Episode 28, a real-life anti-biased teachable moment. |
| 0:15.1 | Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home. |
| 0:23.2 | First-name basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your |
| 0:28.2 | family and a changemaker in your community. |
| 0:31.3 | Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the world we want, |
| 0:39.4 | 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 |
| 0:47.8 | journey with you. Hello, first name basis fam. I am so glad you are here. Okay, I am working on an episode about |
| 0:59.7 | critical race theory. I have heard from a gazillion of you that you need this episode in your life |
| 1:07.1 | and I am working on it. I have done so much research, so much reading, so much podcast |
| 1:11.3 | listening. And I really am excited to share it with you because I think it will really, |
| 1:15.9 | really help. But it's just not ready yet. So I wanted to give you a little something in the meantime |
| 1:21.9 | to hold you over until that critical race theory episode is ready. But I promise it's coming. Okay, so I had a |
| 1:30.3 | moment with Violet at the library last week, and I really want to share it with you because I feel |
| 1:35.3 | like it was anti-biased teaching in the real world, like real-time, real-world anti-biased teaching. |
| 1:43.2 | And, well, I guess what I'll say is that it's not that I did |
| 1:47.7 | wrong the first time. It's just that I took my time to collect my thoughts and figure out how I wanted to do it. |
| 1:52.9 | And I wanted to share this experience with you to show you that that's okay if you don't do it right |
| 1:58.4 | away. And you'll see what I'm talking about in just a minute. So here's what |
| 2:01.9 | happened. We're at the library. We always go to the library on Mondays. And my little Violet loves |
| 2:07.8 | fancy Nancy. She is obsessed with fancy Nancy. We watch fancy Nancy all the time. She always |
| 2:13.6 | plays fancy Nancy when she's dressing up. And so at the library, the first thing that we do |
| 2:18.8 | is make a beeline to the Fancy Nancy books. So she picks up one of these Fancy Nancy books, and she is |
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