https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:13:08 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-brown#post-202746 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:36:02 +0000 jedeve 202746@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Interesting! We are white and live in Montana, which is not known for its diversity. (My husband told me before I moved out here that he could go weeks without seeing a black person. I didn't believe him but it's true). I want our kids to be exposed to people of different cultures though! We do have family members who are Asian and an uncle from Turkey, but they all live far away. So hopefully we can still introduce them to a variety of experiences. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-brown#post-201633 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:16:00 +0000 Boogs 201633@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: Wow that's super cool! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-brown#post-201585 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:02:02 +0000 Mrs. Cowgirl 201585@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: on it! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-brown#post-201581 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:58:11 +0000 Mrs. Bee 201581@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Cowgirl: just in general! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-brown#post-201578 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:53:56 +0000 Mrs. Cowgirl 201578@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Bee: i'd love to! about this topic or just in general? </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-brown#post-201577 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:52:45 +0000 mrbee 201577@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@skibobrown: Haha Charlie has trouble differentiating yellow from orange... guess that applies to his understanding of skin color too! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-brown#post-201572 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:47:20 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 201572@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@skibobrown: or John Boehner! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-brown#post-201562 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:38:53 +0000 skibobrown 201562@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd love to see a blog post about this, once you find a good book and formulate a strategy for discussing race w/ Charlie. </p> <p>Btw, I love that to Charlie, Asian = Orange. It makes me picture a bad spray tan or a pumpkin or something. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-brown#post-201548 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:22:24 +0000 Mrs. Bee 201548@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Cowgirl: since you are probably the most knowledgeable about children's books, i'd love if you did a post on your favorites! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-brown#post-201532 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:48:22 +0000 Mrs. Cowgirl 201532@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>cb hasn't said anything yet, but he definitely notices...when he sees a black baby, he says it looks like his friend, R, from daycare. so interesting and fascinating to see them make sense of their world!<br /> i love "the colors of us" by karen katz -- i read it with my kinders every year and love the easy, child-friendly, but frank talk about different colors of skin. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-brown#post-201517 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:56:33 +0000 Mrs. Bee 201517@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Boogs: haha no we don't. but i did sit next to her at an awards show and chatted with her a bit! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-brown#post-201508 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:35:15 +0000 Boogs 201508@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO is still too young, but I love when kids get to that age. I LOVED doing diversity projects with my old students.</p> <p>Also, random side note, do you share a nanny with Betheny Frankel? I think hers is Tibetan, too. ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-brown#post-201478 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:49:25 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 201478@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Lala hasn't specifically said anything about color, but when she sees a biracial (black/white) boy, she'll say, "He looks like X!" (X is her best friend and he is also biracial... so I know she's noticing. </p> <p>We talk about race all the time in our home because of M. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-brown#post-201470 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:32:26 +0000 MamaMoose 201470@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My LO isn't here yet but I just wanted to suggest the book "People" I loved that book as a kid!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/are-you-brown#post-201466 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:25:30 +0000 mrbee 201466@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Charlie was playing with his old nanny today (now Olive's nanny) and he asked her, "Are you brown?" She laughed and said yes.</p> <p>Later we asked him what color he is. He said, "Orange." We asked him what color Mommy was, and he said, "Orange"'; Daddy is also orange. We asked what color his other friends were, but he said, "I don't know."</p> <p>I thought it was interesting that he's become more aware that different people can be different colors. He's 2 1/2 now (30 months) so it's taken him a while to bring it up in conversation. But I know he's aware of it, because if he sees someone who looks like a friend of ours, he will ask if it's her (she's Tibetan)... and if he sees someone that looks like his old nanny, he will ask if it's her (she is from St. Lucia).</p> <p>But today is the first day that he asked someone about the color of their skin. We'll follow up by getting a book about different people from around the world, and I'll do some research into talking to kids about race.</p> <p>Is your LO aware of race? How old were they when they first brought it up? </p>