{"id":284,"date":"2020-06-04T13:53:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T20:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/stoney-strongstart\/?p=284"},"modified":"2020-06-05T13:28:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T20:28:11","slug":"embracing-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/stoney-strongstart\/2020\/06\/04\/embracing-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a challenging week in the world around us and I feel the need to encourage the discussion of race and racism with children.\u00a0 \u00a0Research from Harvard University suggests that children as young as three years old, when exposed to racism and prejudice tend to embrace and accept it, even though the might not understand the feelings.\u00a0 By age 5, it has been noted that white\u00a0 children are strongly biased towards whiteness.\u00a0 So it becomes very important for parents and educators to acknowledge and name race and racism.\u00a0 One way to do this is through children&#8217;s books as this can help foster more questions and opportunities to model.\u00a0 For a link to the read aloud <strong>\u00a0I am Rosa Parks<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lc4anJHZX1Q\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For younger children there is a great book by Todd Par, <strong>It&#8217;s Okay to be Different<\/strong>, to hear the author read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sl5U2Z0oQok\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been a challenging week in the world around us and I feel the need to encourage the discussion of race and racism with children.\u00a0 \u00a0Research from Harvard University suggests that children as young as three years old, when exposed to racism and prejudice tend to embrace and accept it, even though the might &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/stoney-strongstart\/2020\/06\/04\/embracing-diversity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Embracing Diversity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10016,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/stoney-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/stoney-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/stoney-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/stoney-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10016"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/stoney-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/stoney-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/stoney-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/stoney-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/stoney-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/stoney-strongstart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}