![]() Children look to their parents for cues and they'll learn from your actions as well as your words. ![]() The remedy lies in people like you changing your own deep-seated bias.” Embarrassment or silence gives your child the impression that the topic is off-limits or that a biased remark is accurate and acceptable to you. If someone remarks on your child’s skin color, or suggests ways to make her look fair, make sure you have a firm reply ready, such as “no thanks, we’re proud of our skin color.” Or “the remedy to my daughter’s skin color doesn’t lie in a plastic bottle.So, address your own preconceptions and stereotypes to be an effective role model to your child. They observe your actions and words and pick up those negative attributes. Your own biases and prejudices about physical appearances are easily passed on to your children.Reference your child’s skin color as being just like a revered family or community member ("Your skin is beautiful, just like your grandmother's!").‘Skin Like Mine’ by Latashia Perry, ‘Brown like Dosas, Samosas and Sticky Chikki’ by Rebecca Manari and Heetal Dattani Joshi, ‘How Our Skin Sparkles’ by Aditi Wardhan Singh - these children’s books challenge the discriminatory idea that only ‘fair is beautiful.’ Expose your child to books with characters of darker skin colors. Dark-skinned people need six times more sun than white-skinned people to get enough Vitamin D. Where the sun is strongest, skin colour has become darkest, while weak solar radiation gives light skin colour. ![]()
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