Mother's Day Cards: Chapter Analysis

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This chapter helps teachers recognizes that teachers and other adults often send messages to children judgemental information that are based on the society’s beliefs, cultures, customs, and governmental systems. Although all teachers want children to succeed in society with a confident mind, their biased messages are sent unknowingly, and they are harmful to children’s mind. When the class is making a Mother’s Day card, it is a hurtful activity for children who have no moms if teachers ignore their situations. If teachers only provide picture books with specific races, children with other races would feel excluded. In order to avoid sending these unfair and prejudiced messages to children unknowingly, the chapter introduces the four steps of

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