Prepare your Child?
Pardon me. I cannot sit by and do nothing about what I have observed in this book! A method of learning that “provokes” and “promotes” self measurement using the words “beautiful” and “ugly” - with an image to descript!
What is the world teaching it’s young? - we say “No” to discrimination - we want Obama to lead in the USA, Oprah does the world an Honour and then we still have “publications” such as this in print.
Please. No. This is terrible! can you imagine a child going through this book, getting to this page and then measuring him/herself against the imagery? goodness me, it’s awful. This sort of publication should be “banned” - I don’t say “banned” in the total sense, however banned in the sense of the “nature” displayed below within the picture. I adapted the front cover and cut some pages to illustrate meaning to the terror - and believe me, it is - actually, victimisation.
My god, many of my friends are beautifully coloured and it harms me greatly when they say they feel less than great because of the colour of their skin. This sort of publication has the ability to manifest a generation of these sort of people just by the nature of the “judgement”.
My children were horrified when I pointed this out to them. Are you? … there is no more to be said other than “dear me” Oprah and Obama what are your views? these children are Indian. I know our views as a multi-cultural family are that of absolute disgust and sadness of such damage to little souls in society. I have cut out a page within called “Public Signs” within the book (to illustrate here) - there are no signs there about “emotional damage”.
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