http://www.proudparenting.com/node/1523 Comments for "Way Out Parenting: Gay Idioms You’ll Need to Teach Your Straight Children—Part I" en http://www.proudparenting.com/node/1523 <p>As a full-fledged member of the gay culture, you are fluent in the rich language of your heritage. But sometimes you forget that you are bilingual, and you lapse into your gay language at home. This can cause great consternation for your straight children who are listening and don’t understand.</p> <p>Second-language acquisition research has shown that idiomatic expressions pose the biggest challenge for second language learners. Your children desperately want to share your special language, but like all second language learners, they take your idioms literally. </p> <p><a href="http://www.proudparenting.com/node/1523">read more</a></p> http://www.proudparenting.com/node/1523#comments gay culture humor idioms Just For Fun language Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:25:07 -0700 Way Out Parent 1523 at http://www.proudparenting.com