You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, episode five, family history dinner.

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critical topics and answer the questions you've never felt comfortable asking. We'll use the lessons

we learn to teach our children about race, religion, and culture. I I am so glad you are here. I am so excited to share this

episode with you. And you probably heard the intro,

Family History Dinner, and you were like, what are you talking about? Well, you're about to find out.

But first, I want to give you some background. So in the last episode, we talked about the importance

of teaching your kids about their own

culture so that you can help them begin to develop their sense of self.

And if you miss that one, I highly recommend going back and listening to it so that you can

have some context for this one.

Because at the end of the last episode, I told you that I would share an activity with

you that I have done with both Carter's family and my family to help us learn about our own culture.

And oh my goodness, it was such a blast. I can't wait for you to do it with your family. A little

while back, I was having a conversation with someone and they asked me about

Carter's ethnicity. And I was pretty disappointed with myself when the only thing I could say was

his family's from Europe, question mark. I couldn't believe that I hardly knew anything about his

ancestry. So I came home and I asked him,

hey, I got this question today and I didn't know what to say. What's your ethnicity?

And he said, I think mostly English. And I was like, oh my goodness, okay. We need to spend some

time focusing on your culture because I can't

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