As a new dad, how do I equip my daughter for the age of Trump"
After watching white supremacists take to the streets with torches in Charlottesville last week, I turned to my wife and said what I always say after a particularly exhausting day of news: ?That?s it?I?m quitting my job and homeschooling our daughter.? It?s a recurring joke, and she knows I don?t actually mean it, but in this political climate, I say it so we can cope. In those moments, it feels like homeschooling is the only tenable solution to handle parenting in a cultural and political moment so fraught with division and distrust. Maybe if I can keep an eye on the ideas that surround our child, I can control my own anxiety about the news cycle these days.
My daughter is mixed: I was born in Sudan, with both African and Arab lineage, and my wife is white and Canadian-born. Race didn?t figure a great deal into my early childhood or my wife?s?it wasn?t a conversation we grew up having with our parents. But my daughter is staring down a different future. Race was always going to be a conversation in our household, but given that the racial tensions currently unfolding will span her most impressionable years, the question at the front of my mind is: how will we talk to her about race" .related-article-block{display:inline-block;width:300px;padding:.5rem;margin-left:.5rem;float:right;border:1px solid #ccc}@media (max-width: 525px){.related-article-block{float:none;display:block;width:280px;margin:0 auto 2rem}}
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