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For more than 15 years, Teaching Tolerance has helped educators nationwide reach our young people with lessons of respect and understanding. This Spring, the project will extend its support to children's first teachers: their parents.
A new guidebook, Beyond the Golden Rule: A Parent's Guide to Preventing and Responding to Prejudice, builds on interviews with experts and parents from across the country and offers practical advice for caregivers of children in three age groups: the preschool years (ages 2-5), the elementary and preteen years (ages 6-12) and the teen years (ages 13-17.)
"For several years, we've offered tips for parents online and in Teaching Tolerance magazine," said project director Jennifer Holladay. "This guidebook represents a more formidable commitment to helping parents, grandparents and guardians nurture appreciation for human differences among our nation’s next generation of leaders."
Beyond the Golden Rule already is receiving praise from parenting experts across the country.
"Dividing the guidebook by developmental level, using such varied and fine examples from so many families nationwide, using the wisdom of the experts and concluding with specific tips makes for a comprehensive and easily readable volume," said Dr. Kerby T. Alvy, the founder and executive director of the Center for the Improvement of Child Caring in Studio City, CA. "Beyond the Golden Rule should become basic reading for all parents."
Beyond the Golden Rule will be available at no cost at www.tolerance.org/parents. Print copies will be made available at cost to children’s caregivers nationwide.
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