Raising Race Conscious Children

Welcome to Raising Race Conscious Children, a resource to support adults who are trying to talk about race with young children. The goals of these conversations are to dismantle the color-blind framework and prepare young people to work toward racial justice. If we commit to collectively trying to talk about race with young children, we can lean on one another for support as we, together, envision a world where we actively challenge racism each and every day. Many of the blog's posts are geared toward White people but a community of guest bloggers represent diverse backgrounds and the strategies discussed may be helpful for all.

It starts one conversation at a time.

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Have you participated in the introductory Raising Race Conscious Children webinar and would like to take a deeper dive into scenarios around race and children? This 1.5 hour follow-up webinar will focus on specific scenarios (to be submitted by participants)….

Alvin Ailey, The Sound of Music, and Frozen: our COVID 19 curriculum

by Sachi Feris The Covid Spring felt liberating as a parent compared to this Fall. Covid Spring, while hard, even under the best of possible conditions, felt temporary. Covid Fall feels permanent and indefinite. And anything but liberating. Instead, it…

11 anti-racist workshops in support of the Movement for Black lives (M4BL)

A multi-racial facilitator group will offer 11 anti-racist workshop for “free,” with 100% of donation-based registration going directly to the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL). (The Movement for Black Lives is made up of over 150 organizations that coordinate actions,…

Corona virus gave us time to explore why #representationmatters

My children and I make rice krispie treats a few times a year and every time we make, we talk about the white, male elves on the packaging. Due to corona virus, we finally have had the time to take…

School desegregation and Whiteness in Brooklyn

An interview with Lisa Raymond-Tolan Lisa Raymond-Tolan is a parent in Brooklyn’s District 15 whose son was part of the district’s new desegregation plan. As a result, her son was assigned to a school that was not on their list,…

“Why bring it up?” Pushing back against White supremacy

by Sachi Feris The other day, my dad was showing my children a video of his wife’s daughter’s circus performance and my three-year-old asked, “Are they girls or boys?” “They look like they’re wearing costumes that ‘girls’ more commonly use…but…

Families Belong Together

by Sachi Feris Inspired by Stand for Kids and A Striving Parent, I asked my six-year-old daughter and two-and-a-half-year-old son whether they might like to make rice krispie treats to raise money for immigrant children who have been separated from their…

Talking about race and the importance of parent communications

by guest blogger Susan Park At Community Roots, an intentionally diverse, inclusive, and culturally responsive school, we place an utmost importance on our communications with parents. Following Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday, I sat with my Kindergarten class and read…

White as “right:” Why I don’t normalize Whiteness with my children

by Sachi Feris Around the corner from my apartment is a coffee shop with a poster-sized photograph of Marilyn Monroe. My two-year-old son and I have made many trips to this coffee shop and he always points out this image…

by guest Blogger Valarie Budayr, co-founder of Multicultural Children’s Book Day “Why isn’t our religion the same as everyone else?” my seven-year-old son Omar asked. “Nathan came up to me and said I was going straight to H-E-double toothpicks, AND…