Multicultural Kid Blogs

For families and educators raising world citizens, through arts, activities, crafts, food, language, and love.

Summer Migrations and Home Comings

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by Being Northern European – ok fine, a miserable Brit – summer typically meant a temporary migration south to warmer climes. We’d go somewhere with a plentiful supply of good food, cheap booze and sunshine. Usually France. Occasionally Spain or Italy. As a kid we’d go en masse, a family of seven plus an assortment […]

Acts of Kindness Families Can Do Around the Holiday Season

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by Religious or not, the “holidays season” starting at the end of November and ending mid-January is one of the most apt time for random or planned acts of kindness. The religious celebrations (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Winter Solstice, Hanukkah, Epiphany/Three Kings Day, etc.)  are all centered around the light overcoming the darkness, divine love, and/or gratefulness. […]

When You Don’t Celebrate the Winter Holidays

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by When it comes to holidays, our family focuses on those that we find in our religion (Islam). Since our holidays follow the lunar calendar, there will be years where they fall in the winter, but for about the next 10 years, that will not be the case. On the other hand, in the United […]