How to Talk to Kids About Race In Uncertain Times

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4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Our news this month is flooded with images of white supremacists storming the U.S. Capitol and of a confederate flag being hoisted through its halls. This after months of reporting on police killings of people of color, and the racial disparities in COVID deaths. And adults are not the only ones seeing these images and hearing these stories; they're seeping through to our kids too. Should we be shielding them from stories of racial violence? How much should we protect them? How much should we expose them? We know we should be having hard conversations with our kids. But how? On this Martin Luther King Day we'll discuss how to talk to kids about race. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.0	Coming up on forum, the news this month is flooded with images of white supremacists storming the U.S. Capitol of a Confederate flag being carried through its halls.
0:59.0	Adults are not the only ones seeing these images and hearing these stories of racialized violence and bigotry.
1:05.0	They're seeping through to our kids, too.
1:07.0	On this Martin Luther King Jr. day, we explore how to engage children about what's happening in America in 2021 their skin, but by the content of their character. Today, we're grappling with seeing white supremacists and neo-Nazis
1:49.9	brandish weapons and ransack the U.S. Capitol. We're grappling with fears that racialized
1:54.9	violence will become an even bigger part of our politics or even our communities. How do we
2:00.4	talk to our kids about these events, about race, and prepare them for the racialized
2:05.2	world they face?
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