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Woman's Hour

Parenting: Talking to Your Kids About Race and Racism

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Talking to your kids about race and racism with Dr Pragya Agarwal and Freddie Harrel.

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0:00.0

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0:04.6

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0:36.0

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0:42.0

Hi this is Jane Garvey and this is the woman's parent. podcasts. who you are, where you're living, or what you look like, there are going to be occasions when you

0:54.4

have to confront these, well they can be somewhat difficult conversations.

0:58.9

I've been talking to Dr. Pragia Agawal, who is a behavioral scientist and a diversity consultant.

1:05.6

She spoke to the program from our studio in Liverpool.

1:08.1

She has three daughters.

1:09.8

Also involved was Freddie Harrell, who's the entrepreneur and blogger, and she has a toddler son at the moment.

1:16.0

Freddie and her family live in London.

1:18.0

First of all, Pragier told me about her daughters.

1:21.0

My eldest is 22 and I've got three-year-old twins,

1:24.8

so yes, big age gap between there.

1:27.4

Now, what kind of conversations

1:29.1

did you have with your oldest child?

1:32.1

Well, that's the interesting thing because I was a single parent for

1:36.3

quite a long time and I was quite young and I brought her here we moved to the UK and

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