This is a post for well meaning white parents of white children and I’m going to cut straight to the… Read more The Top 5 Reasons Well Meaning White Parents Do Not Discuss Race With Their White Children

This is a post for well meaning white parents of white children and I’m going to cut straight to the… Read more The Top 5 Reasons Well Meaning White Parents Do Not Discuss Race With Their White Children
I am a white woman, married to a white partner, raising two white children, ages 5 and 3. For the… Read more Watching My 5-year-old Wrestle With His Whiteness
At the end of every day, we practice gratitude with our children. Each of us names something we are thankful for that… Read more My white children know Black Lives Matter. Do yours?
I am a white, cisgender woman, married to a white, cisgender man and we have two white children. I started… Read more Interrupting whiteness with my white children
A few weeks ago, I placed this yellow, intersectional Black Lives Matter sign created by Matice M. Moore, a Black… Read more The messy story behind the Black Lives Matter sign in my white family’s window
Here we are again. We just got through another week filled with horrific brutality against Black men and children by… Read more On hashtags and fleeting white outrage
The social justice book club I participate in just finished Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines, edited by Alexis Pauline… Read more Thoughts on “Revolutionary Mothering: Love On the Front Lines” from a White mom
It’s hard to believe, but A Striving Parent turns a year old today. A year ago, after the Charleston massacre of… Read more 10 lessons I’ve learned as a white parent striving for racial justice
On June 18, 2015, I woke up to news that 9 Black people had been killed in a Charleston, South… Read more “But what can we do?!” A white mother’s reflections on racial justice and parenting
I published my first blog post for A Striving Parent only four months ago. Four months is no time at all, but I am… Read more Resisting the urge to look away