The Year-by-Year Milestones Guide: What Your Black Child Needs From You at Every Age
A child's sense of who they are grows across their whole childhood. The things you put in place at three or seven can still be standing when the teenage years hit. I lived every one of these stages, and in most of them the adults around me missed what was happening.
Year by Year walks you through seven stages, from the baby years into young adulthood.
- Ages 0 to 3, the start of their story
- Ages 4 to 6, the first questions
- Ages 7 to 9, when the world starts talking
- Ages 10 to 12, looking for themselves
- Ages 13 to 15, the hardest years
- Ages 16 to 18, getting ready for the world
- Young adulthood, the long way home
Every stage opens with a piece of my story at about that age. Then you get what can be going on with your child, what they need from you, words you can try, what to watch for and a short checklist. A one-page look at all seven stages comes at the end, ready to print.
20 pages, instant PDF download.
About Michael Gaither
I'm a Black man who was adopted and raised by a white family in Lincoln, Nebraska. I spent 30 years in education as a teacher and a principal, and 13 of those years running my own executive leadership coaching business for school principals. My book is I Was Your Black Child: What White Parents Raising Black Children Need to Hear Before It's Too Late.
