15: Kids and Racism

While many of our collective beliefs and biases have shifted over time, we still find ourselves combatting beliefs that are harmful, detrimental, and even deadly to many minorities. In this week's episode, Dr. Cleopatra and Dr. Roseanne discuss  tools to normalize diversity within children and how we can dismantle prejudice thoughts from a young age. Also highlighted are how implicit biases are formed and ways we can be preventative and introspective. Join Dr. Cleopatra and Dr. Roseanne in this critically important conversation.    Show Highlights:  How we can do better as parents  The way prejudice works in the brain  Why we have to have difficult conversations  How do we overcome instincts The ways experiencing racism impacts fertility  Ways we’ve adapted as a society and how we can erase explicit forms of bias  The impact of loving other people  Overcoming our prejudices and teach our kids to do better  Critical developmental periods and how they impact our growth  How teaching about bias reduces it The importance of teaching about bias from a young age  The struggle of being black in American society and why having conversations is important  Ways to open up conversations and introduce kids to diversity  Why we should be teaching kids to value empathy  Symbolic representations of equality  Why we have to speak up when other people say prejudice things  The willingness to be uncomfortable and effort we have to implement to make a change  How to help your kids be kinder and more accepting  The risks we all have of being affected by injustice  Subtle shifts we can made in the immediate environment and within our own selves  Putting our money where our mouths are  Links:  https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html Dr. Roseann Dr. Cleopatra