This space is a resource for Black child rearing, health and wellness. Here, with your help, I'll slowly but surely build a library of articles, books and also helping organizations' websites on child rearing, parenting and related dilemmas and solutions.
Of course, there will always be special features related to Black children presented at other panels at this gallery. When that's the case, I'll link this panel to wherever that is.
Thanks for your patience as I move to beef up areas of the site such as this one that have been languishing.
I'm not in a position to always be completely familiar with all words and deeds of these authors, examiners and organizations so if at any time you see something here you think is not consistent with what this site stands for, please do not hesitate to make me aware.
I'll keep children's videos here so while parent, guardian, or loved one is reading, you can always know you have something here to keep certain little people busy.
YOUNG BLACK CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT AFFECTED BY MESSAGES ON RACE
"Children from home environments rich in African American culture had greater factual knowledge and better problem-solving skills - a finding that held true even when researchers took family income into account.
Also, racial pride was associated with fewer behavior problems."
Race Pride Benefits Black Children According to Center For the Advancement of Health.
When Tahar Ben Jelloun took his ten-year-old daughter to a street protest against anti-immigration laws in Paris, she asked question after question:
What is racism? What is an immigrant? What is discrimination?
Out of their frank discussion comes this book, an international bestseller translated into twenty languages.
Ben Jelloun has created a unique and compelling dialogue in which he explains difficult concepts from ghettos and genocide to slavery and anti-Semitism in language we can all understand, and adds an all-new chapter for this edition.
(I'm not too sure about this one.
With a forward by Bill Cosby, and reference to anti semitism in this environment with no mention of bigotries against Muslims is very questionable)
TEN QUICK WAYS TO ANALYZE CHILDREN'S BOOKS FOR RACISM AND SEXISM
(This incessantly refers to Black, Brown and Indigenous folk as "minorities," but there are points of merit herein)
GIVING VOICE TO EXPERIENCES: PARENTAL MALTREATMENT OF BLACK CHILDREN OF SOCIETAL RACISM
Abstract: "This paper seeks to explore the ways in which black children who have been maltreated within their families come to voice to tell their stories.
A discussion of black children's recovery from maltreatment necessitates understanding how they interpret and name their experiences as abusive.
Research indicates that while many factors mediate the effects of abuse on children's development, telling your story about childhood trauma is critical in the healing process for promoting psychological well-being.
However, what does the naming and speaking of trauma entail for black children when the broader context of their lived realities is embedded in racism that confers on them a stigmatized status?
Where black children's lived experiences encompass the complexity of societal racism as a mutually reinforcing and contradictory reality in their lives, their capacity to name the maltreatment they experience will be particularly problematic.
Essentially, parents' issues silence children and can encourage them to block out painful emotions, ultimately putting their emotional and psychological well-being at risk.
Taking race and gender as benchmarks for analysis, the complexities involved in giving voice to childhood maltreatment are discussed to consider how these dynamics contribute to black children's resilience and adaptive behaviours in the aftermath of abuse."
This math website is owned by none other than Black inventor Dr. Valerie L. Thomas whose work you can learn more about at among other places "Inventions by All The People of African Descent"
The inscription reads "The Gnat and the Lion," a classic Aesop fable, captures the lush atmosphere of a hot, lazy afternoon deep in the heart of Africa.
The characters are designed from the inspiration of stop motion puppetry while remaining loyal to the appeal of Saturday morning cartoons.
#HOMESCHOOLING BLACK CHILDREN
VILLAGE CONCEPT KEEPS MORE BLACK CHILDREN AT HOME FOR SCHOOL
ALCOPOP: ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ADVERTISED AS SWEET TASTING DRINKS AND DIRECTED AT BLACK FOLK
(I am particularly moved by this work as I myself was a young gullible, vulnerable victim of this kind of advertising overwhelmingly directed at Black communities. Back then it was a dangerous blend of beer and Gatorade called Hoppin' Gator Beer).
I add this, because I am opposed to Black child adoption by White adults, no matter their attractional or sexual orientation except in extreme circumstances.
There are cases where White potential adopters have proven a special proficiency in Black culture and in those rare occasions I would support.
For example, I would support a man such as Tim Wise if he wanted to adopt Black children.
However, it is absurd to suggest Black Same Gender Loving couples should not adopt Black children.
The argument made by the gentleman in this audio is a perfect rendition the illogical nature of evidence against such adoptions.
Heterosexual Black couples produce hundreds of thousands of Black Same Gender Loving people a year, while studies show children of SGL couples are overwhemlingly heterosexual.
With the preponderance of Black SGL people who possess excellent cultural awareness while an increasing number of Black hetero couples are literal enemies of Blackness - it is obvious that many Black children would be wildly better served in Black Same Gender Loving households.
THIS WORK CONSIDERS THE POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF SLAVERY, RACISM, WHITE IGNORANCE AND OPPRESSION ON THE BLACK EXPERIENCE . . . RACISM AS A CAUSE OF DEATH . .
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