Chris Tompkins is an educator, life coach, and LGBTQ advocate who focuses on teaching social-emotional learning. His writing aims to inspire and foster positive change, with themes centered on personal growth and mental well-being. He seeks to empower children and adults alike, guiding them toward more fulfilling and compassionate lives. Through his work, Tompkins shares wisdom and practical tools for building resilience and living a meaningful existence.
A Parent's Guide to Changing the Messages from the Playground
256 pages
9 hours of reading
Focusing on the prevention of homophobia, transphobia, and bullying, this book serves as a vital resource for fostering acceptance. It emphasizes the importance of open and authentic conversations within families, providing practical guidance to create a more inclusive environment. By addressing these critical issues proactively, it aims to cultivate understanding and compassion in communities.
No matter who we are or where we come from, we all play on the same playground. There are certain collective societal messages we hear growing up that we either consciously or subconsciously believe. As a result, we develop certain belief systems from which we operate our lives.Raising LGBTQ Allies sheds light on the deeper, multi-faceted layers of homophobia. It opens up a conversation with parents around the possibility they may have an LGBTQ child, and shows how heteronormativity can be harmful if not addressed clearly and early. Although not every parent will have an LGBTQ child, their child will jump rope or play tag with a child who is LGBTQ.By showing readers the importance of having open and authentic conversations with children at a young age, Chris Tompkins walks parents through the many ways they can prevent new generations from adopting homophobic and transphobic beliefs, while helping them explore their own subconscious biases.Offering specific actions parents, family members, and caregivers can take to help navigate conversations, address heteronormativity, and challenge societal beliefs, Raising LGBTQ Allies serves as a guide to help normalize being LGBTQ from a young age. Creating allies and a world where closets don't exist happens one child at a time. And it begins with each of us and what we say, as much as what we choose not to say.
