How I raised a French kid
The Earful Tower: Paris
Oliver Gee
4.8 • 796 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Imagine your own child is more French than you are.
Well that's a reality for Catherine, an American in Carcassonne, who's today's guest on The Earful Tower podcast.
Catherine, who writes the Taste of France blog, talks about bringing up a bilingual child, the differences between French and American schooling, and the difficulties of parenting between two cultures.
Check out Catherine's blog, Taste of France, here.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys, Oliver G from the Erbil Tower here and today I'm in Carcassonne in South Western France |
| 0:04.6 | and I'm talking to Catherine, an American woman who runs the Taste of France website. So we're |
| 0:10.3 | talking about what life is like when you're raising a child who's more French than you are. And |
| 0:14.0 | Catherine should know, she is a young teenager who's perfectly at home in both France and the |
| 0:18.6 | US and probably further afield too by the sounds of it now in case |
| 0:22.2 | you're tuning into this podcast for the first time what you're listening to is well we're halfway |
| 0:26.8 | through the honeymoon season season four the earful tower and that's where my wife and I are taking |
| 0:31.5 | a little red scooter around the entire country in obviously the shape of a love heart it is our |
| 0:36.7 | honeymoon after all and And we're about |
| 0:38.4 | 2,500 kilometers in. Lastly, today you're going to hear us discussing whether spanking or |
| 0:43.9 | smacking children is legal in France. And the answer to that is that it was indeed made illegal |
| 0:49.1 | in January of 2017. As always, this episode was brought to you by the generous Patreon supporters to the show, |
| 0:56.0 | who I hope will enjoy this weekend's double set of live video walks through the medieval |
| 0:59.7 | fortified town of Carcassonne. |
| 1:02.3 | One in the morning, one at sunset. |
| 1:04.5 | Now, before we get started, here's Slim and the Beast. |
| 1:30.3 | Jump on my back. beast Let's go for a ride Let's go for a ride Hello Catherine |
| 1:34.3 | Hi |
| 1:35.3 | Welcome to the Earful Tower |
| 1:36.3 | From Kakason |
| 1:38.3 | I said it in the last episode |
| 1:40.3 | Karkasan is a really nice sound to it just to say |
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