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

Watching My 5-year-old Wrestle With His Whiteness

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