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Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video I'll talk about what you might want to say to your teen or preteen about cussing and code switching. Truth be told -- I don't swear much. I'm definitely a little looser if I have a beer or two in me, but it's not really baked into my style of speech.  Growing up, my parents were at opposite ends of the cussing spectrum.  My dad swore like a sailor -- still does.  And three year old me could recite his favorite string of pretty colorful 7 curse words like a pro. My mom was never comfortable with it and it showed. At one point, in a fit of pique, she called one of us a piece of shit -- and if sounded so weird coming out of her mouth -- AND she seemed so uncomfortable saying it -- that we all just stopped and laughed for 5 minutes. Probably not exactly the affect she was intending.  Just Words At any rate, I tell my kids -- curse words are just words like any other. They...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video I'll tell cover what you need to say to your suburban kid about the n-word.  I really feel like no parent is going to watch this video. Mainly because nice, respectful, aware parents don't think their kids would EVER use the n-word. Sure, you've never had a conversation specifically about it, but your kid has never heard YOU use that kind of language.  There is really no way they would think that was acceptable.   Here's the reality -- and I know this because I have witnessed multiple incidents just within the last year of kids using the n-word in the "rap" sense.  This is in my upscale, majority white, suburban town of pretty privileged kids. And the perpetrators ran the gamut from lily white 13 year old girls to high school boys, some of whom may have been people of color, but definitely not black.  Here's why I think this conversation really needs to be...