2. Talk within your project about the types of issues that can arise, and practise them in advance. Consider role play-type sessions at which you respond to questions such as: "Why is that man in a wheelchair?" and "Can you wash black skin clean?" with easily understood answers. Discuss how you might respond to arguments that evolve through the recognition of difference.
3. Show disapproval of discriminatory remarks, but not of the child who made them. Children don't invent prejudices; they pick them up from others around them as they grow older. It is hardly fair to blame them for echoing things that they have heard elsewhere. Telling a child off is likely to cause them to withdraw, rather than to learn and change. It is far better to encourage a child who makes a hurtful remark to try to think about the effect it might have on the person it was aimed at.
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