{"id":42847,"date":"2015-09-23T18:31:56","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T18:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42847"},"modified":"2015-09-23T19:16:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T19:16:33","slug":"multiracial-kids-will-soon-have-a-more-colorful-toy-set-for-pretend-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42847","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial kids will soon have a more colorful toy set for pretend play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multiracial kids will soon have a more colorful toy set for pretend play<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Chicago Tribune<\/a>
\n2015-09-23<\/p>\n

Sad\u00e9 Carpenter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nThe MyFamilyBuilders<\/a> toy set includes 48 magnetic wooden pieces that snap together. (MyFamilyBuilders)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

When Ez Karpf went shopping for a gift for his friends’ children, he thought it would be easy to find a toy set that represented their multiracial family. In the U.S. \u2014 Karpf is from Argentina \u2014 there are products for everyone, or so he thought.<\/p>\n

He quickly realized the store aisles were not overflowing with the toys he hoped to buy. He noticed not only a lack of racial diversity, but also the absence of toys portraying same-sex parents and single-parent households.<\/p>\n

“A lot of kids are not reflected in today’s toys; a lot of families are not reflected in today’s toys,” Karpf said. “It’s much easier to learn not to be biased about differences than to unlearn that.”…<\/p>\n

…A product developer\/designer, Karpf assembled a group that included an education specialist, child psychologist, illustrator and tech entrepreneur to address the lack of diversity in toys. Together, they created MyFamilyBuilders<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“When kids don’t see themselves reflected in toys they play with every day, basically this is like having no mirror of themselves,” Karpf said.<\/p>\n

The MyFamilyBuilders toy set includes 48 magnetic wooden block pieces children 3 and up can use to customize their playtime experience. It also includes 25 cards for five different games for children 5 and up. The goal is for parents to join the playing process and create teachable moments for their kids…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Multiracial kids will soon have a more colorful toy set for pretend play The Chicago Tribune 2015-09-23 Sad\u00e9 Carpenter The MyFamilyBuilders toy set includes 48 magnetic wooden pieces that snap together. (MyFamilyBuilders) When Ez Karpf went shopping for a gift for his friends’ children, he thought it would be easy to find a toy set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,20],"tags":[2805,21161,21162,21163,11554],"class_list":["post-42847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-ez-karpf","tag-myfamilybuilders","tag-sade-carpenter","tag-the-chicago-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42847"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42857,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42847\/revisions\/42857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}