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What Do You Do When Your Kid Unintentionally Offends Your Neighbors?

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The Bert Show

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Your four-year-old child loves meeting new people and imitating their accents. However, some people may take offense to this. So how do you explain to your child that mocking others' accents can be offensive? This is what one listener is wondering after their child accidentally offended their neighbor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The virtue.

0:01.0

All right, so she is a little bit concerned because in this email, she has her toddler that

0:09.4

has a fascination with accents.

0:12.6

And when that's the case and the toddler just decides to rattle off some accents, could

0:17.6

be very offensive to people around them, right?

0:20.7

So if you got something going on in your life, you want to share with us, hit us up at

0:23.6

thepertshow.com.

0:24.6

Check out the email you guys.

0:25.6

If you want to get in on it, you can't.

0:27.9

I have a very inquisitive four year old boy.

0:30.9

He's very curious about everything and everyone.

0:33.9

He particularly loves being curious about people from different countries.

0:38.4

His preschool class this past year learned all about different countries and cultures

0:42.9

and also had a little quote unquote around the world event where different cultures were

0:48.0

represented.

0:49.0

I love this.

0:50.0

I really love this idea.

0:52.3

So whenever he hears an accent or sees someone who might look different than he does,

0:57.7

he always wants to know where they're from.

1:00.8

Conversely, I lost my place.

1:05.1

Conversely when he hears a new place, he asks a lot of questions including about the people

1:09.2

who live there.

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