DEI for Kids and Parents
How to Teach an Inclusive Homeschool Curriculum
As ultra conservatives’ mind-boggling crusade against social awareness in public schools continues, more and more parents are opting to homeschool their kids. Can you blame them? Thankfully, those parents do have the freedom...
How Homeschooling Can Help Your Child Discover Their True Passion
Times have changed. More parents than ever are opting to homeschool, and with that happy news brings new hope for helping kids discover their passion early in life. But does...
Why are So Many Parents Choosing the Homeschool Route?
Parents are fed up. More parents than ever have decided to pull their kids out of public school and homeschool them instead. Things like book bans, bullying, school district politics,...
Should DEI Values be Part of Homeschool?
When I was actively parenting my two grown children, I must have said “everybody’s different” at least 300 times. I remember a lot of eye rolling after I said it,...
Is It the Right Time to Teach DEI Values at Home?
The world is changing. No doubt about it. It's not enough anymore to just teach kids the Golden Rule (do unto others...) and leave it at that. There's a whole...
How to Teach Kids Kindness Toward Immigrants
Refugee? Immigrant? Emigrant? Most young kids (and adults too!) don't really know the difference. For kids, understanding the difference isn't nearly as important as seeing the humanness in all foreigners. As parents, it's...
How to Explain Transgender to Kids with Simple Words
Finally! Transgender people are being recognized and (slowly) accepted. But along with that happy news, comes natural curiosity from kids. They need help understanding what it means to be transgender. Here...
How to Answer Kids' LGBTQ+ Questions
Answering kids questions correctly is really hard. They seem to have a gift for asking incredibly hard questions at the most randomly inappropriate times. Here’s an example. I was...
How to Create a Gender-Balanced Household
We need to help our kids grow confidently into gender equality so they can thrive once they reach adulthood. One of the best ways to do that is to create...
How to Support ASD Siblings
I grew up as the younger sister (by two years) of a brother with undiagnosed Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). ASD was not a recognized diagnosis at the time (1970s), but...
How to Break the Body Shaming Cycle and Raise an Accepting Child
Summer time is here. That means all kinds of body shapes and sizes are more visible and vulnerable. It also means it’s time for parents to be super aware of...
How to Take Your Child to a Pride Parade
Despite the latest mind-boggling opposition, acceptance of diversity and inclusion is steadily progressing. Agreed, progress has been super slow, but the good news is that it is moving forward. Most parents want...