Some days a person needs to embrace the simplicity of how a child thinks. Rainbow ice cream became a great start for teaching diversity. Differences and acceptance were taught and celebrated in my daycare.
One of my favorite “mistakes” was when one of my littles referred to another child as a chocolate person. We were having rainbow ice cream for dessert this particular day, and they were commenting which was their favorite flavor. As it turned out, the ice cream would become an amazing learning experience. This child genuinely wanted to know if they could lick the other child to find out how they tasted, and that they too wanted to grow up to be a chocolate person. Many of these opportunities helped me teach them diversity and that differences are wonderful.
Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, all flavors of people are beautiful in their own way, the same but different. Although I never taught kids to be color blind, they were taught to acknowledge difference in a positive way. We embraced all races of people through stories, discussion, recipes, and art. We are all different and the same in many ways, and everyone should be celebrated. Rainbow ice cream, so many colors, and flavors coming together to create a tasty treat. Racism is taught, no one is born racist.