Parents are their children’s first and most influential teachers. “Coloring Lessons” written by David Updike and “Talking Race With a Toddler Who Wasn’t Talking About Race at All” written by Tamika Thompson are similar in style, content, and theme. These two articles talk about how the parents teach their children in a correct way to define people’s appearance, not by skin colors. First of all, David Updike and Tamika Thompson’s articles are similar in styles. Two articles are having conversation between the children and the parents. For instance in “Coloring Lessons”, ““Too many pink people,” he said softly. I laughed, but Wesley failed to see the humor of it and kept peering out through the thickening throng” (Updike). Updike uses conversation between he and his son Wesley in the article that helps the reader more clearly to understand the main point of the article. Wesley mentions, “pink people” in the conversation that shows Wesley is cleverly and young. Wesley uses the colors that Updike had taught him before to describe on people. In order to lead Updike to teach his son to define people not using colors. Similarly in “Talking Race With a Toddler Who Wasn’t Talking About Race at All”, it also uses conversations between Thompson and her daughter Morgan in the article. For instance, “I asked, “Morgan, why didn’t you call this one black?” “Because Sonkey has black hair,” “Donkey has brown hair”” (Thompson). Thompson uses conversations in order to lead the reader to understand Thompson curious about why her daughter call the toy as the black one and Thompson wants to correct the way her daughter saying the black one. However, Thompson was talking race with her daughter, her daughter was not talking race with Thompson at all. Therefore, two articles both have conversations help the reader get stronger understanding of content, and allow the reader to experience the thought of the a