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Parenting & Pregnancy > Childhood Development Teaching your children how to deal with prejudice: 5 of 7

My daughter came home from school, about a week after starting kindergarten, and asked the strangest question. She said, "Mom? What's 'white girl' mean?" I am what you'd call an "average white woman" and my daughter and I had recently moved to a southern California town that was roughly ninety percent Hispanic. I figured that children were innocent and that I didn't have to worry. I was gravely mistaken. Another girl, a year older than my daughter, had started a recess drama by calling her "white girl". What was worse, she soon began teasing the other girls who played with my daughter; say...
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