At PEPS, our mission is to connect parents to strengthen families and build community. We are committed to equity and identifying and breaking down barriers to parent support and wellness, interrupting their negative impact, and eliminating the persistent disparities in child outcomes.

We have an opportunity to make generational change by raising anti-racist children. PEPS is not an expert on social justice and antiracism - we have created a list of critical resources that can help parents to get started.

Join us in committing to learn, unlearn, and talk with your children about race.

ARTICLES AND RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND CAREGIVERS

• A resource roundup of podcasts, articles, and books to help parents get started: Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race
• Conversation Starters from Race Conscious - 100 Race Conscious Things You Can Say to Your Child
• Explaining Racism and Protest to your kids through books
• How to be an Anti-Racist: A Social Worker's Perspective
• How to Teach Kids About Race - information about stages of cognitive development and racial socialization as well as additional resources broken down by child's age
• How to Use Books to Talk About Race
• "I [STILL] can't breathe": Supporting kids of color amid racialized violence - A 1-hour webinar hosted by EmbraceRace
• Look, Listen, and Learn – an early learning education program showcasing Black and Indigenous people and people of color
• Managing racial stress and teaching kids to do the same - A 1-hour webinar hosted by EmbraceRace
• Protecting your mental health while fighting racial injustice
• Resources for anti-racist parenting from Greater Good, a magazine that uses scientific research to create tips and tools for a more compassionate society
• Resource lists for families of color on a variety of topics from Families of Color Seattle
• Talking Race and Cultural Differences with Young Children
• Talking to Your Kids About Race and Other Difficult Things
• The prevalence of prejudice and implicit bias in society
• Thoughts and guidelines for talking about racism and equality in age-appropriate ways (with kids 2-5 years)
• Violence Against Asian Americans - How Do We Support the Children? - A 1-hour conversation hosted by EmbraceRace
• Watch the Sesame Street Town Hall for kids and families, Coming Together: Standing Up to Racism - Sesame Street characters, adults, and kids share stories of prejudice, and explain white privilege alongside messages on how adults can talk with kids about racism, ways to take action, and create change
• What is Identity Development?

ARTICLES AND RESOURCES FOR WHITE PARENTS TO RAISE ANTIRACIST CHILDREN

• A Letter to White Parents
• Beyond the Golden Rule: A Parent's Guide to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice - Teaching Tolerance
• Dear White Parents - Talking guides and resources to support conversations about racism with your child.
• How White Parents with Young Children Can Undo Racism - Seattle Times
• How White Parents Can Talk About Race - NPR
• How to Talk to Kids About the Buffalo, NY Shooting - 15 minute video by Britt Hawthorne, antiracist parenting educator
• Teaching Tolerance - Help your children learn to live and play in a diverse world - Scholastic Parents
• Teaching Your Child About Black History Month - PBS
• The Top 5 Reasons Well Meaning White Parents Do Not Discuss Race With Their White Children
• The White Ally toolkit
• Whites for Black Rights - Website providing education and action for white allies, founded by PEPS alumni
• 4 Steps to Help Kids Push Back Against White Nationalism
• 8 Tips for Talking to Your Child About Racial Injustice
• 5 Pandemic Parenting Lessons by Cindy Wang Brandt (podcast episode)
• 75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice

BOOKS FOR CHILDREN

• A list of books on race and social justice, for kids K-5, from Seattle Public Library
• A clickable bookshelf with resources for talking about race with children
• An open source document with a collection of books for kids, grouped by age
• Books can offer a window to diversity that your family may not encounter on a daily basis. Read more: Children’s Books as Mirrors and Windows (includes a list of infant-toddler board books that promote diversity)
• Books from the Coretta Scott King Book Awards winners list, for preschoolers to teens
• Talking to Kids About Race and Racism, Early and Often (a New York Times article that includes books to help start the conversation)
• 20 Picture Books - readings to embrace race, provide solace, and do good
• A Kid’s Book About Racism by Jelani Memory (ages 5-9)
• All Are Welcome by Alexandra Penfold (ages 5-9)
• Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara (ages 3-5)
• I am Rosa Parks by Brad Meltzer (ages 5-9)
• Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña (ages 3-5)
• More, More, More, Said the Baby by Vera B. Williams (ages 0-3)
• Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee (ages 0-3)
• Something Happened in Our Town by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, Ann Hazzard (ages 5-9)          (Animated version)
• Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang (ages 0-3)
• The Colors of Us by Karen Katz (ages 3-5)
• The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson (ages 5-9)
• The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson (ages 5-9)
• We March by Shane W. Evans (ages 5-9)

BOOKS FOR ADULTS

• An Antiracist Reading List by Ibram X. Kendi
• Dr. Robin DiAngelo Discusses White Fragility at the Seattle Public Library (June 2018) Video or Audio
• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Thirty books suggested by staff librarians on the topic of “Interrupting Whiteness”
• White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Dr. Robin DiAngelo
• Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum

ORGANIZATIONS & EDUCATORS: FOLLOW THEM; SUPPORT THEM; INVEST IN THEM

• A few (of many!) racial justice educators who offer anti-racism workshops, books, podcasts, and webinars
• Black Lives Matter Seattle - King County
• Books for Diversity
• Color of Change
• Embrace Race
• Families of Color Seattle
• Race Conscious
• The Conscious Kid
• The Intentionalist – an online guide to intentional spending that supports small businesses owned by people of color, women, LGBTQ, differently abled people, veterans, and families

Is there a resource that you have found helpful as a parent or caregiver and would like to suggest it for others? Email us!