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Help Your Children Embrace Differences Dorena Williamson Ep 216

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Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Education, Leisure, Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Many of us avoid and struggle with conversations about race or disabilities because it’s uncomfortable. When our children ask innocent questions about someone who is different than they are, it can make us feel tongue tied or embarrassed.

Author Dorena Williamson has created some lovely children’s books to help parents respond and invite their children to join them on the journey of learning to love and speak worth over every person that God created.

And I kept feeling frustrated thinking that’s not the solution to teach your children to be colorblind because that’s minimizing the beauty of God’s handiwork. And as Christians we should be the biggest proponents of celebrating the beauty of our racial diversity and not minimizing it or sort of washing it away and this colorblind land.

She shares powerfully about how to engage with your children about racial and cultural differences and how we can model what it looks like to grow in the area of loving and accepting people who are different than us.

As our children get older, I think that these are valuable conversations to have with them because the beauty of it is that it tells your children you are teachable and that you don’t get it right all the time and that you’re continuing to learn and grow.

What we chat about:
  • All about Dorena’s family and their multiracial church, Strong Tower Bible Church
  • Her book ColorFull and the background behind why she wrote it
  • The creativity of God and how he uses color in all that he created
  • Looking for opportunities to share the beauty of racial differences with our children
  • Language for parents to use to help teach children and avoid shaming
  • Reinforcing the idea that “Different is not bad” and calling out the worth of people
  • Why equipping kids early is important
  • Modeling how we are all growing when it comes to loving and accepting people who are different than us
  • Encouraging our children to ask questions even when they are uncomfortable
  • Engaging with our kids about other cultures whether we can travel internationally or experience cultures in our own cities

Other books/sites that Dorena recommends: 

**Amazon affiliate link to help support the production of this podcast.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, y'all, welcome back to the God Center Mom podcast.

0:07.1

I'm your host, Heather McFadian, and this is the place where we remind you through mentorship,

0:11.9

friendship, and discipleship that you don't mom alone.

0:15.3

In this episode of our 216, I'm welcoming Dorina Williamson to help us train our kids

0:20.5

and embracing differences.

0:23.7

That tells your children that you are teachable and that you don't get it right all the time

0:28.3

and that you're continuing to learn and grow.

0:31.3

And I think that's a beautiful thing to model to our children, that we are growing,

0:36.9

that we're having to overcome things, that we are coming to the realization that we have

0:41.9

felt this way about people, and it may be that that's what your parents taught you,

0:45.5

it may be because you've never spent time around them, what have you, but to share with

0:51.1

your children things that you're growing in.

0:53.9

I think that says to them, okay, mom is still growing, dad is still growing, they're still

0:59.2

learning things, so it's okay that I'm still learning things too.

1:03.6

And that's a humbling posture, but I think that goes so far in conversations like this,

1:10.3

where we are coming to the realization ourselves, well, you know what, I still got some growing

1:15.9

to do, that's a good thing, that's something we should embrace, and that's something that

1:20.0

we should walk out before our kids.

1:23.1

One of the gifts of getting to host this show is knowing that I'm helping moms raise

1:29.3

the next generation, and I can't think of a better topic than helping this generation

1:35.8

handle diversity better, handle racial diversity, handle disability, and to see God's value

1:43.6

in every person, to love them like Jesus would.

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