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Hey friends!

This March we’re exploring accompliceship and healthy anger with our kids.

You know, the usual March routine. Women’s history, calling in Irish Americans for St. Paddy’s – and the traditional spring dance where we pack away the kids’ winter gear, dig it out for freak blizzards, repeat 3x, and then it’s August somehow.

Here are some tools to help you navigate various March-ish topics with the kids.

No one expects you to dedicate your life 24/7 to doing ALL OF THESE in one month. But maybe pick a topic below and run with it.

I’m interested to see how this turns out! If you get into any good, juicy conversations with the kiddos, leave a comment and let me know how it went.

With you,

Ashia R.

PS: Thanks for your patience with all these messy, incomplete resources. I spent February recovering from surgery and I’m still on the mend, so things will be bumpy for a couple months.

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Don't try to do it all! Pick one event and build upon what you learned together next year.

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National Day of Unplugging

Helping kids navigate the attention exploitation of digital media and destigmatizing accessible tech.

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International Womens Day

Let’s talk about valuing care work and recognizing emotional labor!

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National Panda Day

We love pandas. But we don't love the racist themes in panda kidlit - orientalism, racial coding, and anti-Asian stereotypes.

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St. Paddy's Day

Our annual St. Paddy’s call to stop equating indentured servitude with slavery, and other ways we can celebrate being Irish American without being hypocrites.

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Spring Equinox

Kidlit that focuses on hope, rebirth, and emergence from hardship.

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International Day of Forests

Let's talk about deforestation - and what we can do to turn things around.

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The Month of Ramadan Starts

With more stellar books coming out every year, we no longer have to settle for dry nonfiction about the Month of Ramadan

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Understanding speciesism and respecting our animal relations.

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How to weaponize our privilege to support targeted people.

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Who has the right to get angry?

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A beginner's guide to understanding and dismantling systemic racism.

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I live with my family in a rural white community and realized that I needed to work harder to introduce diversity into my children's experience (ages 8 and 3).

I am interested in all areas of diversity and really want my kids to grow up with awareness and the courage to stand up for the rights of others.

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I am a quiet, introverted person so action has been an area that I conveniently set to the side, time and time again.

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