by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Liza Talusan
I experience privilege. I am college educated. I have a steady, salaried job. I am heterosexual. I have a house and a mortgage. Two cars. Two kids. One dog. I am able bodied. My husband and I are married. Both of my parents are still alive and well. I [...]

Dear Anti-Racist Parent,
I am a white parent and have two sons (ages 6 and 8). I am committed to doing all I can to raise them in an anti-racist environment. Education is critical to this goal.
However, I have been disturbed by how both of my son’s pre-school teachers began teaching the history of [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Tami Winfrey Harris
When my husband and I began making plans for my 13-year-old stepson to move from Chicago to live with us in our new home in central Indiana, I was ambivalent. I promise I am not a wicked stepmother. I love J. He’s a caring kid with a fun personality [...]

I wrote this piece a few years ago when I was a monthly columnist for a parenting-related site sponsored by a child advocacy organization. Disclaimer: I really enjoyed writing for that site, and my editor there was the best. However, this particular column was nixed because what they were looking for was more [...]

Dear Anti-Racist Parent,
My child just started kindergarten at a publicly funded, open enrollment, community operated charter school. We live in a very racially diverse city, and the school is located in a neighborhood that is historically African American, though it is also, like much of the city, gentrifying. The population of this school is [...]

Dear Anti-Racist Parent,
My daughter’s preschool teacher had asked me last month if we had any preference for classroom books on family diversity, and I said I had no preference there, since she expressed no two-mom-related issues. But that she’d been very upset earlier in the week, and said that she didn’t want to go out [...]

Dear Anti-Racist Parent,
My neighbors and I all have boys in the 3rd grade. A few weeks ago, their teacher was reading a story that included the n-word which prompted the kids to ask “what’s that?”. The teacher gave a brief explanation something like “a derogatory word used to describe dark-brown people.”
This has prompted much [...]

Dear Anti-Racist Parent,
I am a Mom of two girls and I live in Eastern Canada. I am looking for some advice about the children’s rhyme “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe, Catch a tiger by the toe”.
Last week, on the way home from daycare, my oldest daughter (who is 4) began to recite this rhyme. [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Paula, originally published at Heart, Mind and Seoul
When I was in the 2nd grade, my teacher would occasionally ask for a student to volunteer and help close the end of the school day with a joke, funny story or even just sharing something about themselves with the rest of the class. [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Maegan “la Mala” Ortiz
Maybe it’s because I’m a conscious Latina parent with a background in activism. Maybe it’s because I hate and don’t identify with the term Hispanic. Whatever the reason, I don’t celebrate or doing anything special for the 30 day period from September 15th to October 15th that we [...]

Dear Anti-Racist Parent,
I’m looking for some resources on talking about race, adoption, and transracial adoption that I can pass on to my daughter’s preschool teacher.
I’ve googled a variety of things but haven’t had much luck. Anything anyone can offer would be appreciated.
Thank you,
From Mindy in Iowa
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by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Margie Perscheid, originally published at Third Mom
My approach was to keep it simple – both because as a former teacher I knew that my children’s teachers would have limited time to spend reading the packet, but also (truth be told) because I didn’t get my best ideas until the kids were [...]

by guest contributor Jen Chau, originally published at The Time Is Always Right…
Here’s the conclusion:
Flash 1: Our date with destiny. I mean…the principal.
Conclusion: Paper cutting, Cave paintings, Jackson Pollack splotches, and quizzes.
Moral: Think creatively!
I had absolutely no idea how I was going to actually teach art in a way that would add value to my [...]

by guest contributor Jen Chau, originally published at The Time Is Always Right…
Not even the most well-designed and sparkly lunchbox could have emotionally prepared me for my first week of school. I guess what works as a kid doesn’t always translate to adulthood. Here you will find stories from my first week, but [...]

by guest contributor Jen Chau, originally published at The Time Is Always Right…
[dedicated to V and Crane]
If I could go back in time to my days as a teacher, I would do things very differently. Isn’t it easy to say we would use a different approach years later, when we are wiser and more experienced!? [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Vera L
During this past school year, the idea of beginning a group for parents of African American students at my sons’ elementary school positioned itself in the forefront of my mind. There is already a group at the school for Latino parents. One of the Latina moms decided to [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Tiffany Pridgen
I spend a lot of time being the only black person in a group. I’m used to it — that’s the way it’s always been and it’s rare that I ever feel uncomfortable about a situation. It’s not even because I didn’t grow up around black people — it’s because [...]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
The book that completely transformed the way I thought about race and racism was Amazing Grace: Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation by Jonathan Kozol. Before I read that book, I had always been a bit skeptical when it came to the concept of institutional racism. But after I [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent Columnist Liz Dwyer, originally posted at Los Angelista’s Guide To The Pursuit Of Happiness
I have worked with almost 100 schools across Los Angeles and Compton over the past 8 years and I definitely have seen that race is a factor. If I take the top five lowest performing schools in Los Angeles, [...]

by guest contributor Natasha Sky
My oldest two children are eligible to attend public kindergarten next fall. They have been home full-time since birth, with their dad or me, pretty much living the play-centered life. I began making phone calls to the school in January–we knew this was going to be a complicated process. Our town [...]