What can parents and teachers do to help children resist bias?
What will be an ideal response?
Recognize that because we live in a society where many biases exist, we must counteract them, or else we will support them through our silence. At home or at school, give children messages that deliberately contrast stereotypes by providing books, dolls, toys, wall decorations, TV programs, and records that show multicultural images. Show no bias in the friends, doctors, teachers, and other service providers that we choose or in the stores where we shop. Remember that what we do is as important as what we say. Make it a firm rule that a person's appearance is never an acceptable reason for teasing or rejecting that person. Immediately step in if we hear or see a child behave in such a way.
Talk positively about each child's physical characteristics and cultural heritage.
Help children learn the differences between feelings of superiority and those of self-esteem and pride in their own heritage.
Provide opportunities for children to interact with other children who are racially/culturally different from themselves and with people who have disabilities
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