Raising Inclusive Children: "How to" Articles
How to Teach Kids Kindness Toward Immigrants
Refugee? Immigrant? Emigrant? Most young kids (and adults too!) don't really know the difference, or care. For kids, understanding the difference isn't nearly as important as seeing the humanness in all foreigners. As...
How to Teach Your Child Positive Reactions to Neurodivergent Behavior
The purpose of this article is to help your child understand why people with mental differences sometimes exhibit unusual behaviors. The ultimate goal is to teach them to react to...
How to Explain Neurodiversity to Kids Simply
Neurodiversity (mental differences) can be an abstract notion and often hard to understand, especially for children. This article is for parents (or whomever) with a child in their lives who is curious...
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...
Who Was in America First? How to Talk to Kids About Native Americans
"No fair!" "Why do I have to do all the work?""But I was here first!"Sound familiar? Kids have their own rationale about how things work. No doubt about it.But as...
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 Teach Empathy to Kids
Empathy is the ability to understand and be sensitive to other people's feelings by putting yourself (figuratively) in someone else's shoes. Some kids seem to be born with an...
How to Teach Kids to See Other Perspectives
Some kids seem to be born with an innate ability to comprehend others’ perspective. Other kids need a little push here and there to make sure they’re on the right...
How to Explain Skin Color to Kids
Any parent who's had to stop in their tracks (and panic) when their child asks why someone's skin is so dark, will appreciate this simple answer: Your closeness to the...
How to Discover Kids' True Opinion About Well . . . Anything
Gotta admit. Sometimes kids have an adorable way of avoiding the truth. Even when asked directly, their double-talk is so obvious it's kind of endearing. Or not. There are times when,...
How to Help Girls Find Their Passion in Life
Wouldn't it be nice if we all knew at an early age exactly what we were meant to do in this life? Yeah it would have been nice, but that's...
How to Get Boys to do Chores (without complaining)
First, don't ever call it a "girl" chore. And if your boy says it, you can remind him, gently, that there's so such thing as "girl" chores and "boy" chores....