Ep. 145: Welcoming a Black Son in 2020

<p><a href= "https://sunshine-parenting.com/ep-145-welcoming-a-black-son-in-2020"> <strong>Show Notes</strong></a></p> <p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-8010" src= "https://sunshine-parenting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/IMG_8220-183x300.jpg" alt="" width="183" height="300" /></p> <p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-8009" src= "https://sunshine-parenting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Trek-Pyles-profile-pic-275x300.jpg" alt="" width="275" height="300" />This week I'm chatting with brand new parents Danny & Courtney Tobin about their thoughts and insights about being new parents in 2020 to their Black son. They share advice for white parents about how to raise anti-racist kids.</p> <p>Courtney Thomas Tobin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the UCLA School of Public Health. She has a PhD in Sociology and studies issues of race-based stress, coping, and mental health among Black Americans.</p> <p>Danny Tobin is the Camp Director at R.M. Pyles Boys Camp. A non-profit summer camp that promotes long-term positive behavioral change for low-income, disadvantaged boys by providing a multi-year wilderness camp experience supplemented by year-round mentoring the builds life skills and instills the values of hard work, education, and positive choices. I met Danny through my favorite professional association, <a href="http://www.waic.org/" target="_blank" rel= "noopener noreferrer">WAIC (Western Association of Independent Camps).</a>  Danny graciously offered to chat with camp professionals wanting to discuss race so I took him up on his offer!</p> <h2><span style="color: #1176bc"><img class= "aligncenter size-full wp-image-8014" src= "https://sunshine-parenting.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/DTCT-in-Joshua-Tree.jpg" alt="" width="960" height="720" />Big Ideas</span></h2> <p class="p1">It’s important to teach our kids about peoples’ differences instead of teaching “colorblindness.”</p> <p class="p1">The books we have in our homes and the movies and shows we w