DS is just 4. We are white British. We used to live in a reasonably multi cultural area of London but now live in a very rural and homogeneously white area.
I want to bring DS up with an understanding of racism and how to be actively anti-racist rather than passively non-racist.
So far, it hasn't particularly come up organically as a topic of conversation other than at one point (I forget the exact context) when I said that some people treat other people differently because of the colour of their skin, which is a very silly thing to do because the colour of someone's skin is no more important than the colour of their eyes or hair.
Can anyone suggest any books or resources to start to address this in an age appropriate way?
The other reason I ask this question is that I need to head off a potentially awkward situation: DS is dinosaur obsessed, and his current favourite is the pachycephhlosaurus (pronounced pak-ee-sef-o-lo-saw-rus). Unfortunately, he tends to shorten this to the first two syllables. How do I persuade him not to go about talking about pakis? I need an age appropriate way of explaining that some people may be upset by this if they do not understand the context. He is a curious thing and will want to know why he shouldn't say it.