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At Holly Matuszak’s home in Toledo, Ohio, the Pixar movie “Coco” is in heavy rotation.
It’s no surprise, given that Matuszak has a 6-year-old daughter and a 1-year-old son.
But the animated movie, which celebrates Mexican culture and history, holds special significance for the family: Matuszak’s daughter is mixed: Her father is Mexican and her mother’s background is white European. She loves the movie now, but that wasn’t always the case.
“When she was 3, she cried about seeing ‘Coco’ and not wanting to be Mexican,” Matuszak, a registered nurse case manager, told HuffPost.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings, will convene leading children s health experts for Pediatric Priorities: Improving Children s Health in the COVID-19 Era, a virtual event series underwritten by Texas Children s Hospital and focused on some of the most pressing issues facing pediatric providers, parents and young people.
The monthlong program will kick off on Feb. 23 with a
webinar exploring the impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on children s health and pediatric hospitals around the country, along with new insights on multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) from Dr. Lara Shekerdemian, chief of critical care at Texas Children s.
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Delays in important conversations about racial identity could make it more difficult to change children’s misperceptions about themselves or racist beliefs.
Few words are more heart-wrenching to hear from your child than “I wish I didn’t look the way I do” or “I wish I wasn’t my race.”
Those words can spring from a variety of painful experiences: A taunting on the playground for having “different” hair. The slow realization that all their favorite library books feature characters who look nothing like them. Or, later on, the microaggression of a classmate saying, “You’re pretty for a girl.”