We already know that children pick up on societal messages starting at a very young age, absorbing messages from family members, teachers, social media, television, and movies. Diane Levin has led the way in this area with her books, including “Sexy So Soon” (2009, with Jean Kilbourne), “The War Play Dilemma” (2005, with Nancy Carlsson-Page), “Teaching Young Children in Violent Times” (2003), and “Remote Control Childhood” (1998). Louise Derman-Sparks’ “Anti-Bias Curriculum” (1989) and follow-up “Anti-Bias Education” (2020) teach us that children, like adults, “actively construct a sense of self, a combination of social identities and individual, personal identities.

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