The Mom I Want to Be

In a famous line from Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, he says “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

 

To illustrate Dr. King’s message, show your child a brown egg and a white egg. Then break the eggs open. Remind your child that (just like the eggs) though people might look different on the outside, they are the same on the inside.

 

Finish off the discussion by explaining that Dr. King was a civil rights leader who worked for the equal treatment of African-Americans in a time in America when their were denied the same rights and privileges as white Americans.

 

Ask your child the complete this sentence: “I have a dream that one day all people will __________.”

For info about Dr. King, go to The King Center.