Very small children often take poorly to unexpected change. This includes change in visual appearance from what they're normally used to. Your toddler isn't racist; she is simply put off and scared by a look that is - for her - startingly different. As an adult, you're quite used to all kinds of people. But your toddler probably is surrounded by Caucasian parents, Caucasian siblings, Caucasian grandparents, Caucasian cousins, Caucasian friends, Caucasian, Caucasian, Caucasian. Now, she is just being exposed to a larger circle of people and, from her point of view, is suddenly being introduced to a new and frightening "species." Your information isn't enough to calm her down. She simply needs to interact with the different people until she can learn from her own experience that people are people, no matter what color their skin! She'll learn this really quickly now that she has a mixture of kids in her class and she'll be "cured" of this problem in no time.   Sarah Chana

My kids all did the same thing at that age and I felt so embarrassed just like you. But it passed within a couple of months. Now they love all kinds of people just like we do. So don't panic!

Don't worry, your kid doesn't need therapy. She'll recover by herself like they all do. And it's nothing to do with you. Toddlers just do this thing (that embarrasses their parents really badly) but their parents have nothing to do with it.