When children learn, it’s the only thing they know. Think about that. It may sound obvious, but the difference between child learning and adult learning is that adults have 20 years of filters and perspectives built up that informs how they take in this new information. Meanwhile, when children learn, they have little previous information against which to compare the new. So when they take in new information, often it’s all they know. That becomes the foundation upon which all other learning rests. When children grow up in an environment in which physical characteristics are not openly called out,…

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