written by Love isn’t Enough columnist Liz Dwyer; originally posted at Los Angelista’s Guide to the Pursuit of Happiness
Gorgeous weather yesterday afternoon, so I took my sons to our neighborhood park. As I watched my boys swing and climb on the monkey bars, another mom struck up a conversation with me.
She asked me where my [...]

From NPR:
Edward Morris, a sociology professor at Ohio University, gets to the bottom of how teachers in one Texas middle school used racial stereotypes to classify the behavior of black female students as “un-ladylike.” Listen…
This study came up in a Twitter conversation I had last Friday. It is more than two years old, but still [...]

crossposted from DadWagon
Last week I went to 112th and Lennox in West Harlem to see the universal pre-K program at P.S. 185.
I’ve been looking at pre-K programs throughout uptown Manhattan ever since we discovered that we were too poor for private school but too rich for Head Start. It’s been a frustrating process; as I’ve written [...]

Speak out!

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic. These darlings–Malik, 13; Olivia, almost 7;  and Isaiah, almost 5–come courtesy of mom and reader Jessica.
Got cute kids? Send their pictures to team@antiracistparent.com.

Love Isn’t Enough columnist Jason Sperber sent me a link to this article: “Talking About Race and Role Models.” I’m wondering what you all think of it. In the post from Almighty Dad, the writer asserts that it is “racist” to root for someone, for instance a sports figure, merely based on their race:
Jesse Owens [...]

written by Love Isn’t Enough guest contributor Kristin Howerton; orginally publlished at Rage Against the Minivan
I signed all three of my “big kids” up for a basketball class. I thought it would be really fun to put them in a class where they could learn together, so I searched for one that accepted kids age [...]

Talk!

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic. This one comes from Lavonne H. Now there’s a happy baby! Adorable!
Got cute kids? Send their pics to team@loveisntenough.com.

From Science Daily:
“When a recent documentary about U.S. Latinos featured two teen mothers in a 90-minute program, the Latino students in my classes thought it was an unbalanced portrayal of their community — and they were right!” said Marcela Raffaelli, a U of I professor of human and community development and co-author of a recently [...]

written by Love Isn’t Enough contributor Renee; originally published at Womanist Musings
Isn’t it wonderful everyone? Now girls can be into science too and we know this because everything is a wonderful shade of pink. Yep, pink just screams girl. I suppose I should see this as a leap forward because these sorts of [...]

The floor is yours.

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic. This photo of beautiful Zoey comes from mama Abbey K.
Got cute kids? Send their pics to team@loveisntenough.com.

Essence magazine online has a post up today titled “Is it harder for black moms?” My take, which I shared with the writer, is that the question is unproductive. Blackness alone does not impact how hard or easy a time one might have as a parent. Class, location, marital status, education, level of other resources [...]

crossposted from Not In Our Town
Brooklyn, NY: A girl in 9-year-old Malik Jones’ * class called him a monkey and said he was dirty. Other students started repeating the girl’s words. When Malik touched something, classmates would wipe the spot he had touched.
Malik is one of three African American students in his elementary school class [...]

From Jezebel: Actress Geena Davis takes on gender imbalance in children’s entertainment:
Six years ago, Geena Davis starting watching children’s TV and videos with her then two-year-old daughter. Davis thought she’d find cute, educational fare; instead she found a disturbing gender imbalance.
“It jumped out at me,” Davis tells the Sydney Morning Herald:

There was this huge gender [...]

written by Kelly Hogaboom; originally published at Underbellie
I love what my mom brings in assisting my husband and me in parenting our kids. What she’s bringing mostly lately is Billy Ocean. In the last week whenever I go over to pick up my children after a playdate, she and the kids are singing to [...]

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It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic. Reader Christopher F. shared this shot of his son Ariel. Awww…isn’t he adorable!
Got cute kids? Send their photos to team@loveisntenough.com.

[Editor's note: When I read Jennifer's post below, I was struck by the idea that even as a youth, the boy in Colson Whitehead's book knew to avoid actions that might reaffirm racial stereotypes, even if that meant denying some real want or intrinsic part of himself. Though Whitehead's book is fiction, this way that [...]