Joining Annie Friday this week are Sifu Terrell of Lion Martial Arts Academy and Latoya Nelson of the Attuned Learning Community School. Annie, Terrell and Latoya discuss why children deserve to experience a soft life and in particular why it's even more critical that Black children are able to enjoy a soft life. There are lots of different terms for the more supportive approach to parenting that centers relationship - gentle parenting, conscious parenting, partnership parenting, etc. However you call it, gentle parenting is not just for children of privilege. Sharing from their own lived personal experiences, they talk about the possibility of turning our homes into a pocket of love for our children. Together they answer the question: Can we find spaces that allow young people in our world to exist without the pressures of the harsh outside world? 

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