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Aug 10, 2020 · Teaching race awareness and building empathy and emotional literacy will equip children to see race and racism, feel the pain, anger and anguish it's causing them and others and then learn to take age-appropriate action.
Here’s an age-by-age look at how children’s understanding develops—and why it’s never too early to address racism. Infants show a preference for the faces of people from their own racial group as early as six months.
The budding field of children’s racial learning is deeply rooted in the science of child development. Mounting evidence demonstrates that children are noticing, processing, and making meaning of race early and often, beginning in infancy — long before they are walking and talking.
Mar 9, 2023 · Research published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General in 2021 found that U.S. adults believe children should be almost 5 years old before talking with them about race, even though some infants are aware of race and preschoolers may have already developed racist beliefs.
Jan 17, 2022 · How to talk to young children about race. If you are planning to have a conversation about race with your child who is between the ages of two and seven, you have to remember that they are in the developmental stage of modeling and learning from you.
Jun 15, 2020 · Infants as young as six months old can recognize differences in skin color. By age two and a half, research has shown, children prefer playmates who are similar in race and gender. And as early as age three, they are forming judgments about people based on racial differences.
