Black History Is More Than Just a Month!
Here are some amazingly interesting Black Historical facts from Erin Jackson and Thurgood Marshall, written from one of Afrokids’s contributor, David G. Brown. Please enjoy!
EDUCATION
Beginning Family History Researchers — Lean on Esoteric Clues
If you are a budding family historian, then family get-togethers are a great opportunity to listen for stories to pursue as a part of your genealogical research. Listening is key, because you have to be attentive to what is said, as well as what isn’t said. In fact, what “isn’t said” tends to be a …
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The Scary Truth that has to be Discussed in the Black Community: The Race Talk
The fear of guns, violence, and trauma in the Black community is at an alarming rate. With more Black families becoming victim to racism against their children, the steady rise on this social phenomenon continues. Conversations nowadays are more serious surrounding the dinner table in our Black homes. We are afraid for the safety of …
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Children, Parents and the Internet
How to Talk to Your Kids About the Internet And why having that conversation is so important At what age did your kids or grandkids start using the internet? With many families, that age range is now 3-to-6 years old. And boom, your kids are on the net. Modern day children have never known a …
LET’S TEACH OUR CHILDREN TO READ AT A YOUNG AGE
It is so very important for our little tender hearts to learn at an early age to read! Reading encourages your baby to use their senses to point with their fingers, touch and feel, look with their eyes and use their mouth to answer questions. This helps the child with critical thinking skills and will …
HOW THE COVID PANDEMIC HAS AFFECTED YOUR CHILD’S EDUCATION
It’s been a crazy couple of years. The global Coronavirus outbreak and the Covid-19 pandemic that followed have touched all of our lives in so many ways. We can count the impacts this disease and its required isolation have had on us, but what about our kids? After all, we’re talking about the next generation …
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Preparing Your Black Children For School
What the back-to-school guides don’t tell you… The unique set of challenges faced by Black children in preschool, elementary, middle and high school environments require parents to be informed and involved as they prepare their kids for school and advocate for them during the education process. It begins with preschool. The U.S. Department of Education …
Stimulation Videos Are Good For Babies
Have you heard of Baby Sensory? Simulation videos?Well, Iyah and many other children sure has! Iyah has been enjoying sensory videos since the tender age of 2 months old! She is now 17 months old and has a keen awareness from her eyes, her movements are fluently; she is very agile and her motor skills …
Family Engagement
As an African-American parent, you have the power to boost your children’s learning potential simply by making reading an integral part of their lives. For African-American kids, reading at an early age allows them to start their life on a good foot. Why? What are specific advantages your toddler or preschool-age child would receive by …
Choosing a Preschool
As parents, we know that crucial brain development occurs in the first three to five years of our child’s life. For that reason, we go to great lengths to make sure that our children are exposed to things that are educational as well as fun. Choosing to send our children to preschool is but another …