Ep 77: Practicing “May Day” as a Family in Everyday Parenting

The Social Justice Parenting Playbook framework in Raising Change Agents invites you to re-center and remember that you don’t have to police your child to protect them from police brutality. 

You can still teach your child how to survive the Hunger Games of Capitalism, but do so in a way that’s not “do what I say NOW.” 

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Episode Summary

In this episode, you and I will explore three ways we can share power with our children to prepare them for the future without policing, prison, and punishment, all while promoting their development at the same time. You’ll also hear an excerpt from Raising Change Agents too.

Full episode transcript here.

Episode Outline

  • May Day in a nutshell

  • Bringing May Day home: From Talking About It to Practicing It

  • An excerpt from Chapter Six: Writing Your Social Justice Parenting Playbook

  • Social justice parenting is not easy, but manageable, when we practice it one decision at a time. 

Resources Mentioned:

Ep 74: Preparing Our Kids to “Sit With Discomfort”

Ep 73: Preparing Our Kids to Meet this Moment.


Read an excerpt from Chapter 7 here: Raising Hell…Preparing Our Children to Become Change Agents

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