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Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - My Kid Is Copying His Black Classmates’ Vernacular

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show - My Kid Is Copying His Black Classmates’ Vernacular

Slate’s parenting podcast on respecting lingual differences.

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November 20, 202318m 40s

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Show Notes

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. 


Recommendations: 

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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Podcast produced by Maura Currie and Rosemary Belson.


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