Finding ways to celebrate unique identities amid rising bias.
| A roundup of new guidance and stories from NYT Parenting. |
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When Heidi Shin's daughter was born in 2012, she didn't plan on teaching her Korean, despite the fact that Heidi had grown up speaking the language with her immigrant parents. When she turned 5, her daughter lobbied to learn: She wanted to communicate better with her halmoni, or grandmother. |
In a beautiful, painful essay this week, Heidi writes about how celebrating her daughter's Korean identity has helped her process the racism she has encountered since the pandemic began, which included a girl in their neighborhood pointing to Heidi's daughter and saying they could not play together because of the "China virus." She also asked mental health experts for guidance on talking to children about their identities amid the rising tide of anti-Asian hate crimes in the United States, including the fatal shooting of six Asian women in Atlanta. |
Denise Grady reports that Moderna will begin testing its Covid vaccine in children under 12. The vaccine trial includes babies as young as 6 months. The company has a trial already underway for 12- to 17-year-olds, and it might have results by this summer in that age group. |
Finally, Tara Parker-Pope explores a phenomenon called "disenfranchised grief." That's a kind of grief that "isn't acknowledged or supported by social ritual," and may be the result of anything from lost time with grandchildren to missed professional opportunities to a miscarriage. So many people are feeling disenfranchised grief during this pandemic year, when our losses are big and small, and we may be reminded of them constantly. Tara gives advice from experts about how to cope. |
P.S. I'm working on a newsletter about another under-acknowledged pandemic emotion: boredom. The unending routine of parenting can feel monotonous in the best of circumstances, so if you're finding yourself incredibly bored during this never-ending quarantine life, drop me a line here. |
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| Parenting can be a grind. Let's celebrate the tiny victories. |
My older children (7 and 8) are well past the cleanup song, or even being timed to accomplish tasks. Instead, I have recently discovered that they enjoy being recorded in time-lapse. They love watching themselves cleaning up a big mess in super speed. — Carrie Miller, Washington, D.C. |
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