Sandrayeo Mon 02-Dec-19 17:08:41

Hi all



my DD is the only black kid in her class.

She's also my parent's only black grandchild (her 6 cousins are all mixed).

She doesn't know her father's family (long story).

I never talked about race with her. I figured I would let her bring it up.

I always made sure to tell her how amazing, smart, and beautiful she his.

I bought her black and white dolls alike.

One day she asked me to style her hair just like a white, blond woman in a

magazine. I showed her natural hairstyles on black models in the same magazine. She started crying, saying she

wanted the blond hairdo.I was baffled.



Yesterday she asked me, out of the blue, to make her "beige" (. She kept saying she wanted to be beige, didn't want to be brown because brown's not pretty

When I ask her if her grandmother, aunties or myself are beautiful, she says yes but still, she wants to be beige.

She cried, a lot, I couldn't change her mind so distracted her with a game.

This morning she woke up asking me to make her beige...again.



I really don't know what to do about this.