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Choklit Dolls is A Business We Love!
We love being parents and there is nothing more important than raising our children. This can be equally rewarding and sometimes very challenging!.
Four years ago, our daughter Ariel who was 3 at the time, came back home from childcare, one day with a question that would mark the beginning of our journey. She asked my husband and me whether she and I were brown because we had been eating too much chocolate (the origin of ‘Choklit’). She was coming to a realisation that her skin colour was different, brought to light by a classmate that made her feel self-conscious. We knew at that moment that we needed to educate her on what it meant to be culturally diverse.
But when would be the right time to start teaching her about a world that’s already so divided by race and colour? And what would be the best way that is sincere and sensitive? The perfect tool, we thought, to assist us in developing an awareness, would be to familiarise her with something she was passionate about. That special something could play an important role in her development as a global citizen.
Flashbacks of my childhood, life in Botswana, southern Africa, became uncomfortably heavy upon recollection. Toy stores in my country did not seem to stock brown skin dolls. There weren’t any dolls I could identify with, nor that I could see myself through.
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