Ep 31: How to talk to kids about race, gender and other taboo topics

Raising Good Humans

Dear Media, Aliza Pressman

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🗓️ 28 February 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:05.0	Welcome to Raising Good Humans.
0:08.0	I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman and I'm here with Liz Kleinrock
0:12.0	who is an anti-bias educator and consultant based in LA.
0:16.0	She's also a published author with Teaching Tolerance, an organization that creates curricula for teachers.
0:22.0	Her work has gained national recognition through a mini-day that creates
0:25.0	a curriculum for teachers.
0:28.0	She received teaching tolerance
0:30.0	as 2018 Award for Excellence in Teaching and currently serves on the Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board.
0:37.0	Today we're focusing on overall ways to address taboo topics.
0:42.0	You know those topics where we're afraid to talk about them or we're
0:46.5	uncomfortable and so we don't feel confident that we even know what to say to our kids. And those topics usually fall into categories of race, gender,
0:57.0	sexuality, prejudice, and in an election year,
1:01.2	it's coming up even more. So I thought we could talk to Liz about her
1:08.7	wisdom and experience addressing taboo topics with students.
1:13.0	What do you recommend parents do to get comfortable bringing up difficult subjects with their kids?
1:21.0	Well, I think with any topic you are uncomfortable with, it's important to figure out why you're
1:25.5	uncomfortable with that first.
1:28.9	And when you start unpacking a lot of those feelings and opinions, certainly a lot of those feelings and opinions.
1:32.8	Certainly a lot of things can come up.
1:35.7	Often these things can be traced back to our own childhoods
1:38.7	and how the adults in our lives
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