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Picture books can be a powerful way to teach kids about the importance of representation and to steep them in diversity from a very young age.
What children are exposed to early on shapes them forever, and that’s certainly true when it comes to diversity and acceptance. At just 6 months old, for example, babies are able to recognize race-based differences. Racial bias can set in once they’re 2. And by the time they’re tweens, many of those biases and beliefs have become “set,” the American Academy of Pediatrics warns.
So parents basically have a decade-ish to fundamentally influence how their children view and value diversity, while living within a broader system in which inequality is rampant. It’s quite a task.
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A friend he was staying with in Wilmington dissuaded him from the notion of taking his show on the road, so to speak. Instead, he did socially distanced concerts for her neighbors several weeks running in her Glen Meade front yard. It was a way to get things out musically, Whitted said. There s a lot of music in him, as Kennedy whom he met in 1997 during a production of Godspell at Cape Fear Regional Theatre can attest. Brian Whitted is a musical genius, Kennedy wrote in a Facebook message. I do not use that term lightly. Pianist. Singer. Arranger. Comedian . He is a beautifully trained musician and can play anything, from Rachmaninoff to Stevie Wonder to Sondheim.