Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Today is Mother's Day, but you don't only have to be a parent for our next conversation. We all struggle with how to talk to our nearest and dearest about race and identity, especially right now when it can feel - let's be honest - pretty uncomfortable. Luckily, our friends at Code Switch just released a podcast for parents looking for advice around these challenging family conversations. But aunts and uncles, grandparents, listen up, too. It's not just mom and dad or mom and mom and dad and dad who shape the way kids think. Karen Grigsby Bates and Shereen Marisol Meraji, welcome to the program. SHEREEN MARISOL MERAJI, BYLINE: Thank you. KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, BYLINE: Thank you. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Let's start off with a question from a white family in Philadelphia. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: My son says he's afraid of black people. He's 12 and goes to a very diversely populated school. But neither of us has friends of color that
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