Raising Change Agents: Practicing Social Justice in Everyday Parenting - Hardcover

by Nat Nadha Vikitsreth (Author)

Tools and strategies for busy parents seeking to instill social justice values in their children

Raising Change Agents gives parents the tools they need to weave social justice actions into their daily routines, raise socially conscious kids, and address their own triggers and trauma, helping them become more than performative, take a proactive approach, and teach their kids and themselves to live in alignment with their values, even when they feel overwhelmed with the demands of work and homelife. The author's proven framework focuses on breaking the abstract concepts of social justice actions into bite-sized actions that parents can implement throughout the day whether during mealtime, bath time, play, or school drop off.

The book explores how to:

• Raise children to be social change agents by first becoming one
• Practice social justice in daily parenting while promoting a child's development at the same time; each social justice action in this book is linked to developmental psychology
• Take concrete actions to support doing the "heart work" of liberation together for the long haul, because liberation starts at home

Raising Change Agents is an essential read for busy parents who believe in social justice initiatives and want to instill these values in their children but don't yet have the tools and strategies to do so, along with practitioners, therapists, educators, and other professionals who work with children.

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Transform daily routines into opportunities for raising socially conscious children

"Nat creatively weaves ancestral wisdom with liberatory technology to make radical care irresistible. The moment is now to raise the change agents within you and inside your home so we can co-create a legacy of liberation in community together."
--DR. RESMAA MENAKEM, Trauma Specialist and New York Times Bestselling Author of My Grandmother's Hands

"This isn't a self-help book for naval gazing do-gooders; this is for parents who have been pricked by their conscience and called to implement the change they want to see in the world by starting at the root."
--DAYNA LYNN NUCKOLLS, The People's Oracle

"Fun, irreverent, practical, and accessible, Vikitsreth offers a guide for parents of young children who want to raise rebels, resist capitalism, and heal generational trauma."
--AUTUMN BROWN, Host, How to Survive the End of the World

"Nat has artfully pushed us all to see how the small moments of caretaking build a world beyond structural harm. As longtime documenters of collective struggle, we were comforted and pushed forward by Nat's warm, steadfast commitment to practicing new political possibilities in the intimate spaces of our lives."
--DANIEL KISSLINGER and DAMON WILLIAMS, Co-hosts of AirGo

Author Biography

Nat Nadha Vikitsreth, LCSW, (she/her) is a dot connector, norm agitator, and practitioner of liberation who supports parents and caregivers in their efforts to make parenting political in practical ways while promoting their children's development at the same time. Based in Chicago, she works as a nationally award-winning decolonized therapist, a keynote speaker, a community organizer, and as host of the Come Back to Care podcast.