Practice You
On womanhood, excellence, Blackness, and our crucial collaborations in parenting, partnership, and creativity.
CLEAR ALL
Your child just came out to you. Now what? Here are some things to keep in mind.
A comprehensive guide to the medical, emotional, and social issues of trans kids. These days, it is practically impossible not to hear about some aspect of transgender life.
The discovery that a child is lesbian or gay can send shockwaves through a family. A mother will question how she’s raised her son; a father will worry that his daughter will experience discrimination.
A THROUPLE are bringing up their two-year-old baby as ‘theyby,’ a term that refers to gender neutral parenting where the baby isn’t outwardly identified by its parents as either a boy or a girl.
A conversation with the sociologist Mary Robertson on how some queer youth are pleasantly surprised with the lack of family drama the news causes.
When many LGBTQ people look back on their childhood, we remember a mixture of confusingly feeling different; being harassed for our sexual identities; and realizing how important our parents, teachers and other authority figures were in either helping us through those years—or making our lives worse.
Even for a psychologist who studies how kids understand racism and violence, talking to her own children about it is difficult.
1
CGTN's Asieh Namdar spoke to Allison Briscoe-Smith, director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Wright Institute, on how to speak to children about racism.
“You’re always communicating about race, whether you talk about it or not.”
A lack of support splits parents into warring factions. Here’s what could stop the fighting.