The current U.S. President, with his expressions of prejudice, uniquely empowers people to engage in bigoted behavior openly — and the worst and longest-lasting legacy of the “Bully-in-Chief” may be lessons in how-to-hate that adults are passing on to children. At Bustle, contributor Aisha Saeed recommends six picture books she is reading to her children to help them navigate current events.
In her essay, Saeed describes taunts that her child had to endure from classmates because his skin was brown. “Until Kindergarten came with its cruel reality shock, I hoped to shield my children as best I could through the current events that haunt us, to have the tough conversations when they were older — but I learned the hard way our children live through these current events with us and so it is on me as a parent to help them navigate through it.”
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