Welcome to Nobody Told Me.

I'm Laura Owens.

And I'm Jan Black.

As a mother-daughter duo, we're always interested in issues related to parents and raising children.

On this episode, our guest is education professor, Dr. Tracy Baxley, who's a cultural and race identity coach for parents.

And Dr. Baxley is the mother of five biracial children, and she feels parenting is a form of activism.

She's the author of the new book, Social Justice Parenting,

How to Raise Compassionate, Anti-Racist, Justice-minded Kids in an unjust world. Dr. Baxley,

thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me. I'm excited. Yeah, we're excited to talk

with you because this is a conversation we all need to be having.

And I'm wondering if you could define for us what social justice parenting is to you.

You kind of coined that term.

Yeah, I think it's just a way that we, the way that we parent is like the way we are very intentional and purposeful in the

way that we're raising our children to really show up for themselves and others. It's about

raising children who are more compassionate, more kind, who believe in the power of activism

and how we support our children and getting there.

Did you know before you had your kids how you wanted to raise them and how you wanted to

approach the issue of race or was it something that you kind of had to develop along the way?

You know, I think I had some ideas just as a black woman, you know, what that may look like for me

raising my children.

But obviously, you know, my husband is white.

So learning to navigate that for my children and them finding their place and their own identity

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