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Image zoom Find children’s media featuring every kind of family. It s easy to normalize nontraditional families through picture books and TV shows so that when your kids do come across different kinds of families in real life, it s not weird at all, says Kiaundra Jackson, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Los Angeles. She suggests the book My Family, Your Family, by Lisa Bullard, about a little girl named Makayla who goes through the neighborhood looking for something great about the variety of families she encounters. Or try the film Despicable Me, a goofy farce about a supervillain who grows close to three girls from an adoption agency. (Spoiler: He becomes dad to all three.) Parr, whose books like

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