Teach Your Children About Adoption Before Releasing Them on the Playground

The things kids say to each other on the playground can be cruel in ways we don't expect. I wrote this piece about a difficult experience my kids had on the playground one day and it hit a nerve with readers. The article was published on the Huffington Post and garnered more than 53,000 Facebook likes and shares.

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An Open Letter to My Fellow White, Liberal Parents

We are all conditioned from birth in matters of such things as equality, beauty, design, comfort and tradition. We are all affected by what we see around us. Whether we like it or not, our world conditions us all from a point of white dominance. In this piece, published on The Huffington Post, I make the case that to actively exclude people of color from children's entertainment is especially racist and destructive to our society.

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