Protection
Truth Be Told: Time to Thrive
American Public Media
4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
How do we raise Black children who feel free? One way, conscious parenting coach Yolanda Williams says, is for caregivers to face their own childhood trauma.
Yolanda sat down with host Tonya Mosley in 2022 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.
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| 1:01.2 | Hey, welcome to Truth Be Told. I'm Tanya Mosley. How do we raise black children who feel free? |
| 1:09.0 | One way, conscious parenting coach Yolanda Williams says, is for us, the caregivers, |
| 1:14.5 | to face our own childhood trauma. |
| 1:17.7 | Yolanda and I sat down to talk about the first steps in raising free-thinking black children |
| 1:22.9 | and stopping this tradition of spanking as a form of discipline. |
| 1:27.6 | I learned so much from Yolanda, and I'm sure you will too. |
| 1:39.1 | When I got pregnant with my first child, I had this delusion that I was going to be the perfect mom, |
| 1:46.0 | the best mom in the whole wide world. Do you remember when we were pregnant with Audrey? What was I |
| 1:51.9 | like? Oh yeah, very much. You know, you were so enthusiastic and so driven to make sure that this |
| 1:58.4 | child had everything she needed. You weren't driven to give this kid |
| 2:03.0 | all the things that you never had. You were driven to make sure that this kid got everything she |
| 2:08.6 | needed so that she could thrive. And during the baby stage, like the first two or three years, |
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