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Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
In this episode of Delusional Optimism, Dr. B dives deep into the neurological foundation of babies and how they become racially bias. She describes what research shows about babies forming their racial presence at infancy as opposed to the myth that it is taught to them.
Listen in to learn what you can do to wire your babies for the inclusiveness of people of different ethnicities.
“We can raise babies who are wired for inclusiveness of difference and can still navigate safety.” [12:36]
What You Will Learn:
- [2:54] The belief that parents taught children racism implicitly and explicitly in the past.
- [3:59] Studies show that children develop racial bias at infancy and not in preschool.
- [9:12] Understanding that infants are going to prefer caregivers’ faces and why we need to expose babies to people of different ethnicities.
- [10:01] How to wire babies’ brains to match up the similarities and differences between their loving caregivers of a particular race and with different faces of different ethnicities.
- [12:03] How our brains’ bias turns into outward racism.
Relevant Links:
Website: https://www.drbconnections.com/
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