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       How I taught Ameera about class,gender and sexuality this week.
       By: AminaMohamoud Date: November 4, 2018, 2:46 pm
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       Hi Ladies,
       
       I know it's been three weeks since I've last posted. It can be
       quite hard to write when your busy teaching your seven-year-old
       about the world and your one-year-old is just about starting to
       speak.
       I have noticed some trolls on the forum, I'd like to assure
       these trolls that my seven-year-old gets more education from
       home than any education system. The world can be your best
       teacher, anyway right? Why not teach your child about life
       early. This Saturday I taught her about race and discrimination.
       I told Ameera to repeat after me:
       "Race is just a social construct"
       Now I know that some of you will think I'm crazy to teach my
       daughter about race. I think it's crazier that my melanated,
       coarse-haired daughter will have no clue why the world treats
       her differently. I think it's even more absurd that I let her
       out into a cruel world which will force her to hate herself. How
       about we teach our kids to be decent human.
       Also, a big shout out to Shirley Shelley post ' Charlie wants
       to be Charlene...I think'. These aspects of identity and gender
       should be explored. Last week I was carrying out some literacy
       skill tests with Ameera. She passed and was so keen to learn new
       adjectives.
       "Androgynous"
       She is so cute, she could barely pronounce it. I replied
       "Yes baby, this is when someone is partly male and female in
       appearance."
       "Mummy I think I androgynous"
       After correcting her sentence, I fully understood the
       irrelevance of forcing gender roles on children.  I will end
       this blog by telling you mummies a short story on how I taught
       Ameera about class systems and systematic oppression. While
       distributing the money for a game of monopoly, I gave Ameera
       thirty pounds and kept a larger sum of money. Every time she
       landed on jail Ameera would have a strop. In the end Ameera
       shouts:
       "Mummy this game isn't fair"
       I was patiently waiting for this moment, this slight moment of
       realisation and I simply replied.
       "Exactly Ameera. That is how class systems work, people at the
       bottom are left with no money and lack of opportunity. Just like
       this game many of them end up in jail because if wrong choices"
       "No fair" she replied.
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