ISCORE diversity event

I know it’s a long time coming but you are all now about able to read about my ISCORE diversity event yay!! I know it took place a couple of weeks ago but it’s still in my memory as a very eye opening session I attended.

The session I attended was circled around children literacy and diversity in books read at the children’s levels. What really captured my attention was how oblivious I was as a child in what I was reading. When we were given children’s books to read with the mindset of how much lack of diversity there was in some of the books, it amazed me how set every book was in showing how every child’s life should seem. The books captured the picture perfect family and living situations the majority of the time. Few also placed different races of people in classifications that we are exposed to every day in the real world.

This really brought my attention to how early society places labels into children’s mind of how families, children and people in general show look or what they should be doing in their everyday lives. I think back to my childhood and the books I read or was read to and I don’t really remember a lot of diversity at all. They were mostly about the classic families where there was a mother and a father where the father had an office job and the mother took care of the children and there was no such thing as financial issues or family crisis’.

I believe that this event was helpful in allowing me to broaden my horizons to maybe have a better grasp on what I allow my children and younger family members to read. By giving them books that diversify them in what they perceive people to look like and what they do on a daily basis, they will be better off in accepting diversity as an adult. This is an objective I know a lot of parents and people with younger family members are trying to accomplish. As a society, diversity is something that should be widely accepted and celebrated as a method of becoming more culturally united.