Rearview shot of a young woman and her daughter having a conversation on the porchgettyExisting racial tensions reached a crescendo in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd and led to widespread discussions about anti-Black racism, police brutality, and overall race relations in the U.S. Although the same issues are just as prevalent and alarming almost three years later, the urgency behind many of those discussions has now disappeared and the country seems to have gone back to business as usual. But that does not mean that parents can and should not talk about issues related to race and racial relations in American. Although children are typically not developmentally prepared to understand the concept of racism until four to six years of age, pediatricians say that awareness of racial difference can develop as early as infancy. And for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of color) children, being exposed to discrimination can result in toxic stress that impacts them for the rest of their lives, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in a policy statement released in 2019… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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