> the importance of cultural fluency in the formation of peer relationships
Fluency in the culture is crap. Are we really supposed to be glad our kids know all the Cardi B songs?
Fluency in the culture is crap. Are we really supposed to be glad our kids know all the Cardi B songs?
You don't have shared experiences or languages. There's usually only a small amount of children who share what you experienced, and you don't always understand when they are joking, or how to deal with situations, or even what they are saying. And many times the kids you do know are weird or worse than those your parents think they are protecting you from.
I know plenty of homeschooled kids who are now perfectly happy, well adjusted adults. The only thing I can see that they have in common is a tendency to think for themselves.
Most of them are now homeschooling their kids. And their kids are also happy and well adjusted— much more so than the kids I went to school with.
(I’m a maladjusted product of mostly standard education, so take this with a grain of salt.)
OP predicts your reply, just replace "bullying or emojispeak" with Cardi B in his original post.
Also, kids have known and talked graphically about sex since the days of Elvis. I've been told even the ancient greeks knew what sex was.
So, the older generations’ complaint about popular musicians since at least Elvis’ hips.
I think your responses have made my point way more eloquently than I could do myself, so I guess I'll leave it here.
I urge you to consider that fitting into the culture isn't worth it if the culture is bad. You may not see the culture's taste in music as bad, which is fair, but I am sure in other cultures (say in highly restrictive and conservative cultures) you'd be ashamed to be culturally literate (antebellum south? Jim Crow era?).