53
Toddler Inappropriately Bringing up Race/ethnicty - What to Do?
E.K.
asks from Seattle
My 2.5 year old is starting to notice race - specifically African-Americans. On 2 recent occasions, she has seen an African American and said "Are you black?" (over a...
ANSWERS
See all- We live in an area that is mostly Hispanic but my daughter has done the exact same thing. On the one occasion a very dark African American man was behind us in the g...
- Totally normal for her, she is noticing how people are different and wanting to talk about it. Once my daughter asked very loudly if an older lady was a pirate becaus...
- I am assuming you live here in the Seattle area, which does have relatively few African American citizens, so I can understand your daughter's interest/curiosity. On...
