Mom's 'Privilege Walk' Helps Kids Appreciate What Their Dad Overcame to Be a Good Father

Mom's 'privilege walk' helps kids appreciate what their dad overcame to be a good father

Being a parent isn't easy, but it's infinitely harder if you didn't have a good parenting example yourself to follow. Some may have had abusive or neglectful parents, and some may have grown up in a household where one or both parents were so busy trying to make ends meet that they didn't have the opportunity to be as present and involved as they wanted to be. Breaking a cycle as a parent is difficult, and kids may not even realize when they hav…

How Parents Talk to Kids About Money, Privilege and Inequality

“Adults know about social, economic, cultural issues, but kids don’t understand all that yet,” said Catherine Collins, with her twins, Edison and Aria, in Clarendon Hills, Ill.