'If your children watch you address microaggressions, they learn that antiracism work is a normal part of life.'
No matter how much you are inclined to shield your children from painful encounters, there's a good chance — if it hasn't come up already — that your child will hear someone making a racist remark or they'll see someone committing a racist act. And there's an even better chance that it will be coming from someone your child knows.
"Modeling is a hugely important aspect of parenting and that includes in a parent's efforts to raise children who are antiracist," Shawnese Givens, a family therapist, told POPSUGAR."If your children watch you address microaggressions, they learn that antiracism work is a normal part of life."Still, not knowing what to say and how to say it is the obstacle still keeping many parents from addressing these situations head-on.The simple answer: as soon as it happens.
"In the moment is always best, but you can also talk about something that happened previously and why it was difficult for you to intervene in the moment," Givens said."Again, modeling is crucial to children developing an antiracist framework. You don't have to be perfect. You just have to try. Share your feelings. Ask the child what they are thinking and feeling. Identify how you would like to react in the future.
"Comments like that are examples of the ways that we have been taught that whiteness is superior and that's not OK."
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