"she's been doing what she calls "book reporting" them. "We go on a journey together and we decide to research what that means, where it comes from, why it happened, and where it stemmed from," she explains. She then says her sons are already beginning to understand how everything in culture is interconnected and that "Mom, it's not that deep" is actually very rarely true."
"It takes a phrase or cultural moment they find funny and think they understand, and asks them to question its source, whether it's OK for them personally to say, how it became popular, and more. In the case of "six seven", perhaps the most annoying example currently, it's basically just a reference to memes about basketball players' heights saying "six seven" in a funny way that was popularized by a song."
A parent assigns book-report-style investigations when children bring home new catchphrases. The child and parent research what the phrase means, its origin, why it circulated, and its cultural context. The practice helps children recognize cultural interconnectedness and challenges the instinct to dismiss trends as insignificant. The method prompts questions about whether phrases are appropriate to repeat and how they became popular. Using "six seven" as an example shows how memes and songs can drive spread of phrases. This approach functions as an introduction to media literacy and to how information, even trivial content, travels online.
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