By Chimdindu Okafor — 2022
While visiting historically Black campuses, I began to reimagine what my college experience could be.
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The GOP candidate is creating fear and confusion in children, especially kids of color. Here are three suggestions for talking with kids about race and racism in the media.
A lot of children today fall apart when they experience disappointing setbacks.
Even for a psychologist who studies how kids understand racism and violence, talking to her own children about it is difficult.
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“You’re always communicating about race, whether you talk about it or not.”
Children’s problems include adapting to a new classroom, bullying by classmates, or abuse at home, but resilience is the ability to thrive despite these challenges.
Resiliency is about standing back and letting them fail, yes. But there’s far more to it than that.