Birds & Bees

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Some information is so big and so complicated that it seems impossible to talk to kids about. This week, stories about the vague and not-so-vague ways to teach children about race, death and sex - including a story about colleges responding to sexual assault by trying to teach students how to ask for consent. Also, a story about how and when to teach kids about the horrors of slavery and oppression in America.

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Photo: Tile painting by Ashley Newman of Baked in Brooklyn

Credits

Host:

Ira Glass