Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - The “Place to Belong” Edition
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3.8 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On this episode: Elizabeth and Zak are joined by Amber O’Neal Johnston. She’s the author of A Place to Belong: Celebrating Diversity and Kinship in the Home and Beyond and has a blog called Heritage Mom. They talk about how families can celebrate their own identities while learning about and appreciating other people’s races and cultural differences. What does it mean to teach kids about “hard history,” but also celebrate cultural heritage? And, why do so many parents find it difficult to talk about culture and race?
Recommendations
Elizabeth recommends: Read Aloud Those Kids from Fawn Creek by Erin Entrada Kelly
Zak recommends: Make your own pesto
Amber recommends: Get a good knife
Resources
A Place to Belong: Celebrating Diversity and Kinship in the Home and Beyond by Amber O’Neal Johnston
Amber’s blog: Heritage Mom
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains explicit language. |
| 0:05.5 | Welcome to Mom and Daughter Fighting Slate's Parenting Podcast for Monday, May 16th, the |
| 0:10.7 | Place to Belong edition. |
| 0:12.6 | I'm Elizabeth Newkamp. |
| 0:13.8 | I write the homeschool and family travel blog, Dutch Dutch, Goose. |
| 0:16.9 | I'm the mom to three littles, Henry who's 10, Oliver who's 8, and Teddy who's 5. |
| 0:40.5 | We live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I'm Zach Rosen. I make the Best Advice Show podcast, and I live in Detroit with my family. Noah is four, and Ami is one. And I'm Amber O'Neill Johnston. I write at HeritageMom.com, and I have a book called A Place to Belong. My kiddos are 12, 10, 8, and 6, |
| 0:45.7 | and we live outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Well, today on the show, we're going to be talking about how you and your families can celebrate your own identities while learning about |
| 0:49.7 | and appreciating other people's races and cultural differences. It's a question you all have asked about |
| 0:55.2 | a lot over the years. And we're so lucky to have Amber here. She just released a new book called A Place to |
| 1:00.7 | Belong, which we'll be talking about a little later. But before we get into that, we wanted to |
| 1:05.0 | dive into our mailbag and share some of your thoughts. We got a message on Facebook that I thought |
| 1:10.0 | Amber might be able to offer |
| 1:11.2 | some thoughts on as well. Take it away, Shasha. In a recent episode, Elizabeth mentioned that |
| 1:16.4 | she'll be going back to homeschooling for all three kids next year. How did her family come to that |
| 1:21.0 | decision? I have twin five-year-olds and have been mulling over the idea of self-directed education |
| 1:25.9 | for them since they were about one. I've settled on sending them three days a week idea of self-directed education for them since they were about one. |
| 1:28.3 | I've settled on sending them three days a week to a self-directed education center here in Massachusetts. |
| 1:33.6 | I'd love to hear some of the reasoning that went into the New Camp family's choice |
| 1:37.1 | and what Elizabeth's experience has been like as a former homeschooling parent |
| 1:40.9 | who then tried out some formal schools for her kids. |
| 1:45.6 | Well, Amber, you actually had just had either a post or an Instagram kind of talking about the original reasons why you |
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