047: Black Lives Matter

Parent Driven Development
Episode 047: Black Lives Matter, How to be Anti-Racist (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/preview?pru=AAABcnX07hc%2APm8gUUGqTq4TxCwAWKNadg&fbclid=IwAR0y2_zK_2nsTviltzZr9ILXJRHa2xxj4xO0zALLye3pAB7HmOOoyfNQ1S8), How to Talk to Your Kids about BLM
00:20 Black Lives Matter Movement
02:00 How NOT to raise racist kids
Allison and Kwu both have young kids, so conversations are slightly different
Gender inequality talks
Explaining to kids how and why people are treated differently in different areas
Changing the language in the house: racism, violence, hate
07:50 Exposing pictures, graphics and videos to your children, no matter the age. What's appropriate?
Protesters getting arrested
Bail rates vary depending on race
Children are very intuitive and understand more than we think
11:30 How to talk to young kids about BLM
Bi-racial and how they are often judged by their outer appearance
Comfortability amongst couples and how to lean into these conversations with their children
17:40 Rallies, protests and how to support
Different forms of support during BLM
COVID is still relevant
Amplifying POC voices
Daily threads on educational resources, city statuses, anti-racism resources, action items
25:10 How can we make our world better together
Opening the conversation about anti-racism with friends, family, community members
Focusing on the growth of our children to be anti-racist
28:45 Genius / Fail moments
Allison’s son struggles with life after the virus as he starts to jump on their nerves from a relaxed approach at the beginning of quarantine #fail
KWu focuses on finding a chinese immersion school for her son but it he jumps into the wrong level and doesn’t understand much and is a bit of a mess from lunch right before #fail
RESOURCES: BLM and how to talk to you kids about racism
Anti-Racism Resources (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BRlF2_zhNe86SGgHa6-VlBO-QgirITwCTugSfKie5Fs/preview?pru=AAABcnX07hc%2APm8gUUGqTq4TxCwAWKNadg&fbclid=IwAR0y2_zK_2nsTviltzZr9ILXJRHa2xxj4xO0zALLye3pAB7HmOOoyfNQ1S8)
Black Lives Matter for Families (https://blmweekd65.weebly.com/for-families.html)
Webinars for Anti-Racism (https://www.embracerace.org/resources/webinars)
WOKE Kindergarten (https://www.wokekindergarten.org/)
How to Talk to Your Kids About Racism (https://www.prettygooddesign.org/blog/Blog%20Post%20Title%20One-5new4?fbclid=IwAR1erPdRJlJ9BI2y63RXb0Htks9lIsYJ-6m016SlmTgt1Rk-fYprp1_sE44)
Books on Social Justice for Young Readers (https://www.slj.com/?detailStory=great-books-social-justice-middle-grade)
Raising Race Conscious Children (http://www.raceconscious.org/workshops-and-consultations/)
Talking About Race: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (https://nmaahc.si.edu/about/news/national-museum-african-american-history-and-culture-releases-talking-about-race-web)
BOOKS: These are books that we found to be helpful in unlearning old beliefs and learning more about modern day racism.
A Kids Book About Racism (https://amzn.to/32YHG2u)
So You Want To Talk About Race (https://amzn.to/3g88dxT)
How to Be an Antiracist (https://amzn.to/3f88MXl)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (https://amzn.to/3hH30O7)
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism (https://amzn.to/39F1MQv)
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Panel
Allison McMillan (https://twitter.com/allie_p)
Katherin Wu (https://twitter.com/kwugirl)

Parent Driven Development

Episode 047: Black Lives Matter, How to be Anti-Racist, How to Talk to Your Kids about BLM

00:20 Black Lives Matter Movement

02:00 How NOT to raise racist kids

Allison and Kwu both have young kids, so conversations are slightly different
Gender inequality talks
Explaining to kids how and why people are treated differently in different areas
Changing the language in the house: racism, violence, hate

07:50 Exposing pictures, graphics and videos to your children, no matter the age. What's appropriate?

Protesters getting arrested
Bail rates vary depending on race
Children are very intuitive and understand more than we think

11:30 How to talk to young kids about BLM

Bi-racial and how they are often judged by their outer appearance
Comfortability amongst couples and how to lean into these conversations with their children

17:40 Rallies, protests and how to support

Different forms of support during BLM
COVID is still relevant
Amplifying POC voices
Daily threads on educational resources, city statuses, anti-racism resources, action items

25:10 How can we make our world better together

Opening the conversation about anti-racism with friends, family, community members
Focusing on the growth of our children to be anti-racist

28:45 Genius / Fail moments

Allison’s son struggles with life after the virus as he starts to jump on their nerves from a relaxed approach at the beginning of quarantine #fail
KWu focuses on finding a chinese immersion school for her son but it he jumps into the wrong level and doesn’t understand much and is a bit of a mess from lunch right before #fail

RESOURCES: BLM and how to talk to you kids about racism

Anti-Racism Resources

Black Lives Matter for Families

Webinars for Anti-Racism

WOKE Kindergarten

How to Talk to Your Kids About Racism

Books on Social Justice for Young Readers

Raising Race Conscious Children

Talking About Race: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture

BOOKS: These are books that we found to be helpful in unlearning old beliefs and learning more about modern day racism.

A Kids Book About Racism

So You Want To Talk About Race

How to Be an Antiracist

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism

How can I support the podcast?

Please follow us @parentdrivendev on Twitter or email us at [email protected].

Our website is at ParentDrivenDevelopment.com.

Support us via Patreon and get access to our our Slack Community!

*As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Panel

Allison McMillan

Katherin Wu