I was going through my daughter's classwork...

[redqueen]

I usually do it when it gets taken out of the folder, but this time we were just getting to a homework assignment so I put them aside in a stack. So anyway I'm going through the papers and I see a folded and stapled book of papers... "My Election Book: All About Voting". I leaf through it noting how her coloring skills have improved, and how her handwriting is changing. I look at the answers and am pleased she's such a good student. On each page the student writes the correct answer on the blank line. "The ________ is our country's leader." "Americans elect a new president every ____ years." So on the middle of the book, the president is pictured seated at a desk. He's colored as you'd expect kids to color a president. But on the next page, the sentence is: "The people who run for office are called ________." On this page, she colored the candidate. She gave the candidate dark skin. I can't explain to you how that made me feel. Happy. Very happy. Like many children from biracial families she's heard things from within her own family that made her aware of the color of her skin in a way I hope fewer and fewer children are as we move forward.

Oh, and on the last page, it says: "On election night, the votes are counted. Who do you think the winners will be?" I think whoever put this together probably expected "the American people" might be an answer. I'm not sure, but that's what the word "winners" makes me think. She wrote "Barak Obama" anyway.

[Forkboy]

1. That's cool.

:thumbsup:

[KitchenWitch]

2. that is awesome!

:hug:

I, too, hope that we can get past the skin color bias and become one human race.

[Pierre.Suave]

3. Neat

good for her!

[Dangerously Amused]

4. Awwww. That's definitely one for the "save" file.

And hard proof that you are a good mama, too. :)

[lizziegrace]

5. Kids don't miss a thing

she's a keeper. And so's her mom...

:)