Diversity?

[5 Little Monkeys]

I have books with different people, different families, people with disabilities etc. It is really hard to find multi-cultural dolls though around here! I found some at Ikea but honestly, they looked scary to me! lol. (just made cheaply so the faces were "off")I found an African-American doll in the States awhile back. She is beautiful!! Unfortunately, my dck's NEVER play with her!! She gets stepped on, arms broke off, her head and one leg has had to be glued back on and she is always just left in the middle of the floor. If I only have a couple dolls out and everyone wants a doll no one will pick her! I was actually kinda concerned about this behaviour because I truly do believe that no child is born racist. However, I have come to the conclusion that they just don't want to play with her because she is "different".

Well fast forward a bit.....I have a child come into my care who is African-American. I have to be honest and say that I was a little worried as to how the kids would react to him. I have all caucasion children except for one who is Native Amercian (but he's really pale skinned so a child wouldn't even know this). They have all been fantastic and play well with him though....well except for one child but he doesn't play with any of the boys, he prefers girls lol.

I can kinda understand why a parent would want more children around them that are the "same" but not really. Here, I now have 3 different races but they are so young that I don't think colour matters to them. I think once they get older they would benefit from being around same races but I don't think I would want to take my child out of a dc that they are doing well in just because of race. That's just me though....like we said in another thread, parents parent differently and will do what they think is best for their child.