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Supporting our children to celebrate diversity

  “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better”                                     Maya Angelou   Supporting our children to celebrate diversity Following the heart-breaking death of George Floyd, we are all reminded of the fundamental importance of raising the next generation of children to not just accept difference and diversity but to celebrate it.   The research suggests that children as young as 5 will already display bias towards other groups of people.   Dr Danielle Perszyk, a psychologist based at Northwestern University in the United States, observed that young children are astute observers of the social world and are exquisitely sensitive to the interactions they observe in the world around them.   These observations impact directl...