Activities for Kids and Grandparents on Christmas, DEI at home

Generational Bonding on Christmas

Christmas day usually starts out festive and hopeful. But as the hours tick by, busy parents in the kitchen can’t help but hear the loud silences in the other room...
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How to Teach Your Child Positive Reactions to Neurodivergent Traits

How to Explain Neurodivergent Behavior on Christmas

The holidays can be a sensory-overload nightmare for neurodivergent kids. The purpose of this article is to help your neurotypical child understand why people with mental differences sometimes exhibit unusual...
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How Do You Explain Indigenous Americans to Kids?

"No fair!" "Why do I have to do all the work?""But I was here first!"Sound familiar? Kids have their own rationale about what's fair and what isn't.   No doubt...
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Raising kind kids, DEI for parents

Kindness Is Still a Thing

In the near future, children will be seeing images splashed everywhere of humans being treated unfairly. They need to know that’s not the right way to treat people. It’s time...
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Tagged: Empathy
How to explain DEI to kids

How to Explain DEI to Kids

Trump's "victory," ironically, made it more important than ever for parents to ensure that their children grasp Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion's (DEI's) enduring foundational principles: equality and justice for all....
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How to Guide Boys in the Age of Girl Power

The increasing growth of the girl power movement has helped girls feel more emboldened to embrace their uniqueness, strength, and confidence. While this is a good thing, it can sometimes...
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Beyond the Acronym: DEI as a Parenting Imperative

Despite the latest weaponization of the DEI acronym, instilling diversity and equality values into the minds of the next generation remains a parenting imperative. Beneath the heated DEI rhetoric lies...
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Tagged: Empathy
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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...
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DEI resources for parents, how to explain neurodiversity to kids

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...
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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...
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Tagged: Empathy
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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...
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DEI resources for parents, perspective taking

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...
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Tagged: Empathy

DEI morals start at home.