I don’t know about where you live but, in our area, it seems the end of summer and beginning of fall is the time for festivals! Cultural festivals can be a great way to introduce your kids to cultures from around the world. We recently visited our local festival in Kansas City, the Ethnic Enrichment …
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Disclosure: Thank you to TimTimTom Books and Barefoot Books for providing copies to review. All opinions are the author’s own. For Multicultural Children’s Book Day this year, Multicultural Kid Blogs was chosen to review Underwater Adventure from TimTimTom and Amazing Places from Barefoot Books. I’m so honored I got to review these two books to celebrate and …
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I love to explore cultures with my kids. Recently, I sat down to reflect on how we’ve been doing that lately. I quickly realized that we haven’t really been doing much. We’ve all had to do a lot of re-thinking lately, haven’t we? We’ve had to pivot, regroup, go back to the drawing board. Life …
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In 1990, President George H. W. Bush designated November as National American Indian Heritage Month, also referred to as Native American Heritage Month. Months honoring marginalized people groups are important for bringing awareness of the stories of these people into mainstream consciousness. Of course, we want to celebrate Native American cultures and heritages all year …
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We all agree that learning geography is important, but sometimes I wonder if it gets overlooked as a subject. Is there more to geography than just labeling countries and capitals? Are we taking the time to explore the 5 themes of geography? My own geographical knowledge is embarrassingly lacking. Now that I’m a parent to …