As I write this, I sit on a plane to City (La Ciudad de Panama) with my Gringo husband who has never been to Central America. Granted, I’m a Gringo, too, but I’ve been there many times with my mom who is from Panama. Already, the questions from my Hubs have come at hardball speed. “What […]
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Ramadan Kareem and Marhaba (Welcome in Arabic) to our Global Learning for Kids series focusing on Libya. Global Learning for Kids is a series from Multicultural Kid Blogs about exploring the world with kids through crafts, books, recipes, activities, and more! Each month we will feature a country and host a link party to collect posts
These days you can find many books about the parenting strengths of one culture over another. No matter where you are from, many experts would have you believe that someone is always parenting better than you are. But educator and mom Maya Thiagarajan invites us to do away with these either/or, better/worse paradigms so we
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The world is a big place. And as much as I would love to be able to take the kids to see the disappearing rainforests in Brazil, or the “sinking” Maldives, and many other beautiful and endangered places, it’s really not possible. But as a conservationist, wildlife manager, and marine zoologist, I want my children
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There are many things I am grateful for to my mother and music and language exposure is definitely one of them. Although I did not grow up in a bilingual family myself and started with my first language at the age of 9, I always had an easy time picking up languages and mimicking accents.
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