Imagine this scenario: Your three-year-old daughter refuses the chocolate milk you give her. She tells you a boy at preschool made fun of her brown skin and said that white skin is better. He also told her that drinking chocolate milk turned her skin brown, so she shouldn't drink it anymore. What should you do to help your daughter build awareness and a positive selfidentity?
Tell her that drinking chocolate milk does not make a person's skin brown so she can keep drinking it Make a reminder to yourself to talk to her about this in more depth in a few years when she's older and better able to grasp racist comments.
Reassure her that it is normal for skin to come in lots of different colors, and explain that the shade of skin just depends on the amount of melanin a person has. She has beautiful brown skin because she has more melanin than kids with whiter skin. You could also tell her that lots of people with whiter skin want their skin to be darker, so they use tanning beds or sunshine to activate their melanin to make their skin browner.
Tell her that you will only buy white milk from now on so that she will stop being upset about her classmate's racist comment.
Imagine this scenario: Your three-year-old daughter refuses the chocolate milk you give her. She tells you a boy at preschool made fun of her brown skin and said that white skin is better He also told her that drinking chocolate milk turned her skin brown, so she shouldn't drink it anymore. What should you do to help your daughter build awareness and a positive self- identity?
drinking it Make a reminder to yourself to talk to her about this in more depth in a few years when she's older and better able to grasp racist comments
o Reassure her that it is normal for skin to come in lots of different colors,and explain that the shade of skin just depends on the amount of melanin a person has. She has beautiful brown skin because she has more melanin than kids with whiter skin.You could also tell her that lots of people with whiter skin want their skin to be darker, so they use tanning beds or sunshine to activate their melanin to make their skin browner.
O Tell her that you will only buy white milk from now on so that she will stop being upset about her classmate's racist comment.