Protection

Truth Be Told Presents: She Has A Name

American Public Media

True Crime, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

How do we raise Black children who feel free? One way, according to conscious parenting coach Yolanda Williams, is for caregivers to first deal with their own childhood trauma. Williams sat down with Tonya to offer some actionable tips on how to raise “free-thinking Black children” - and stop the tradition of spanking as a form of discipline. We gained so much insight from Yolanda in this episode and you will too. Click here to access Yolanda’s “Be Intentional Checklist.”
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0:00.0	When I got pregnant with my first child, I had this delusion that I was going to be the perfect mom, the best mom in the whole wide world.
0:09.0	Do you remember when we were pregnant with Audrey, what was I like? Oh yeah very much you know you were so
0:15.3	enthusiastic and so driven to make sure that this child had everything she needed. You weren't
0:22.3	driven to give this kid all the things that you never had.
0:26.4	You were driven to make sure that this kid got everything she needed
0:30.6	so that she could thrive.
0:32.0	And during the baby stand. so that she could thrive. A.
0:33.0	And during the baby stage, like the first two or three years,
0:37.0	I think I was actually doing it.
0:40.0	Breastfeeding, check.
0:41.0	Making my own baby food check.
0:44.0	I also had just about every baby book on child development,
0:47.0	and I lived on those mom message boards,
0:50.0	which can be so ratchet by the way way crazier than Twitter.
0:54.3	Anyway, it was a magical time,
0:56.8	and my husband and I tried to soak up and capture every moment.
1:01.1	Hi, Sunshine.
1:02.1	That's my first born Audrey back in 2007 when she was just a few months old.
1:10.0	I recorded her on my cell phone. Say hi to the world.
1:14.0	It's hard out there for a baby.
1:19.0	Hard out there for a baby.
1:22.0	Those were some of the best moments.
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