The Kid Translator every parent needs to hear with guest Katie Plunkett
Sunday Sports Club with Allison Kuch
Dear Media
4.9 • 971 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Katie Plunkett is a fifth grade teacher, founder of KidTalk, and a professional kid translator and she joins Allison to tell us everything we're accidentally doing wrong (and also that we're doing great, it's fine). Allison and Katie get into how to handle tantrums without losing your mind, why you should stop asking your kid if they had fun, screen time guilt, and how to actually praise your kid in a way that sticks. No gentle parenting shaming, just real, helpful stuff.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. What's up, guys? Welcome back to Sunday Sports Club |
| 0:05.9 | podcast, a podcast that's literally not all about sports. I say that in every intro that this |
| 0:10.8 | podcast is about sports, but like half the time it's about sports and the other half, it's like |
| 0:14.8 | selfish things that I want to learn about. And today I'm excited to welcome my guest, Katie Plunkett. |
| 0:20.2 | She's an educator, professional |
| 0:21.7 | kid translator, founder of Kid Talk, and a fifth grade teacher and literally is like teaching today. |
| 0:31.1 | So thank you for taking the time to talk with me. Did I miss anything going over like who you are? |
| 0:39.7 | No, that essentially covers it. |
| 0:45.2 | Okay, I love that. For people who might not know you, how do you explain what you do as a kid translator? Yeah, that's a great question. So by trade, I am a teacher, but I do kind of work in a unique setting where it's a Waldorf school. |
| 0:58.3 | So I track with my students. |
| 1:00.2 | I'm currently teaching fifth grade, but I've had the same class since first grade. |
| 1:04.7 | That's so cool. |
| 1:06.6 | That is so cool. |
| 1:07.9 | It is really cool. |
| 1:08.1 | It's actually my favorite thing. |
| 1:10.4 | And it allows you to go so much deeper with the families and the children. |
| 1:15.0 | And every year we can just hit the ground running because I know them so well. |
| 1:18.8 | But what that has afforded me is the opportunity to see them grow up and see developmentally, like how they change over the years. |
| 1:27.8 | And I've had to adjust my communication and the way that I'm running my classroom |
| 1:31.7 | based on, you know, their age and where they are developmentally. |
| 1:36.2 | So as a kid translator, I help a lot of people online. |
| 1:41.6 | They send me questions. |
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