Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - My Kid Is Copying His Black Classmates’ Vernacular
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🗓️ 20 November 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth, Jamilah, and Zak help a listener who’s in a quandary. Her young son started copying his Black classmates’ vernacular. She doesn’t know if or how she should correct him.
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Jamilah: Jiffy Cornbread
Zak: Proper Noun Song (to the tune of September by Earth, Wind and Fire)
Elizabeth: Car Sickness Glasses
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting Slee's Parenting Podcast for Monday, November 20th, |
| 0:07.0 | the Grammar Police Edition. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Elizabeth New Camp. I write the Homeschool and Family Travel Block Dutch, Dutch Goose. I'm the mom of three |
| 0:13.8 | little's Henry who's 11 all of his nine and Teddy who's seven. We live in |
| 0:17.8 | Tokyo Japan. I'm Jamil Anieu, a writer, contributor to Slates Can, feeding parents and |
| 0:24.5 | Colin and mom to Naima, who is 10 and we live in Los Angeles. |
| 0:29.9 | I'm Zach Rosen. I make another podcast, it's called The Best Advice Show and I'm Dad to Noah who's six |
| 0:35.6 | and Ami who's three we live in Detroit Michigan. Well on today's show we have a |
| 0:40.0 | letter from a parent who's not sure how to correct their child's grammar. |
| 0:44.0 | Kids at school may talk one way, but does it need to be corrected at home? |
| 0:49.0 | Then we will have recommendations and some advice from you as we dive into the mailbag. We'll see you back here in a minute. |
| 0:58.1 | We're back and we're diving right into our listener question. |
| 1:01.2 | Do your mom and dad are fighting? |
| 1:03.0 | Lately I've noticed that my five-year-old has become aware of certain grammatical differences |
| 1:07.0 | between the way our family speaks at home and the way that some of his black classmates speak. |
| 1:11.3 | I'm not sure he's fully grasped the connection between the |
| 1:13.3 | differences, but the other day I was walking along the waterfront with my kids and the |
| 1:17.2 | old one said, I don't see no boats and without thinking I corrected him. |
| 1:20.9 | In response he told me, some of other kids at school say it that way. |
| 1:24.8 | It caught me off guard and I didn't really know what to do. I just want to make sure I |
| 1:29.6 | handle this matter with sensitivity and respect for diverse linguistic backgrounds. |
| 1:33.5 | It's important to me that my kids understand and appreciate the rich cultural diversity in their school. |
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