{"id":66136,"date":"2020-12-03T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=66136"},"modified":"2020-12-02T19:35:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T00:35:56","slug":"the-vaccine-for-racism-inequality-and-hate-has-arrived-in-the-form-of-a-new-childrens-book-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/the-vaccine-for-racism-inequality-and-hate-has-arrived-in-the-form-of-a-new-childrens-book-series\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vaccine for Racism, Inequality, and Hate Has Arrived in The Form of a New Children&#8217;s Book Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 3, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Author\/Educator and Chiropractor based in Santa Monica, Dr. Todd Gewant, today announced the release of his 2nd book in the \u201cWhat I Wish I Was Told\u201d children\u2019s book series, \u201cWhat I Wish I Was Told: Part 2: A Poetic Guide To Unite Us All\u201d (ISBN: 979-8696235394).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/20-1203-what-i-wish-book-696x522.jpg\" alt=\"What I Wish I Was Told: Part 2\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/20-1203-what-i-wish-book-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/20-1203-what-i-wish-book-696x522-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jane Elliott, renowned American diversity educator, endorsed \u201cWhat I Wish I Was Told Part II,\u201d saying, \u201cThis book should be taught three times before college, and become the future bible of unification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book helps educators (primarily grades 4-12) and parents use illustrated poetry to promote and encourage dialogue with children around topics such as equality, acceptance, unity, and anti-racism. The included curriculum\/activity guide helps young people explore their feelings, experiences, and opinions based on current societal issues of life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoetry is an incredibly powerful tool for learning. Children will be taught how to write poetry and socialize appropriately, through the lenses of creative and free thinking, self-directed learning, and reading\/writing comprehension. They will learn so much more of \u2018what I wish I was told\u2019 when I was young,\u201d says the author, Dr. Todd Gewant.<\/p>\n<p>Each lesson in the book creates a highly unique platform for children to develop important qualities of self-esteem and an appreciation of diversity in all areas of life.<\/p>\n<p>As stated by Dr. Todd, \u201cWe can help our children to become positive, caring, and creative adults through this curriculum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Todd has been a frequent guest speaker at schools and social organizations, and has consulted with a variety of education administrators and teachers to develop a robust core curriculum around the true values of diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about this original and timely journey of multicultural themes and modalities at <a href=\"https:\/\/whatiwishiwastold.com\/\">https:\/\/whatiwishiwastold.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both books in the \u201cWhat I Wish I Was Told\u201d children\u2019s book series can be purchased on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatiwishiwastold.com\/\">Dr. Todd\u2019s online shop<\/a> or on Amazon at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B08KZ47BW9\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B08KZ47BW9<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*PHOTO link for media: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/20-1203-what-i-wish-book-300dpi.jpg\">https:\/\/www.Send2Press.com\/300dpi\/20-1203-what-i-wish-book-300dpi.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*Caption: Cover, \u201cWhat I Wish I Was Told: Part 2: A Poetic Guide To Unite Us All.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES, Calif., Dec. 3, 2020 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; Author\/Educator and Chiropractor based in Santa Monica, Dr. Todd Gewant, today announced the release of his 2nd book in the &#8220;What I Wish I Was Told&#8221; children&#8217;s book series, &#8220;What I Wish I Was Told: Part 2: A Poetic Guide To Unite Us All&#8221; (ISBN: 979-8696235394).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8669,"featured_media":66118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,12804,1,10,45,37,307,187,559],"tags":[6854,12261,12428,8407],"class_list":["post-66136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-publishing-news","category-ap","category-business-news","category-california-news","category-education-news","category-entertainment-news","category-family-parenting-news","category-los-angeles-news","category-products-news","tag-childrens-book","tag-diversity-in-education","tag-inclusion","tag-poetry","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":4072,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8669"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}