Comments on: New Year’s Resolutions + Exploring Culture

By: tendersaplingmama

tendersaplingmama — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:51:54 +0000

Thanks for sharing your resolutions, from spending more time with your kids to continuing to explore other cultures! Love all of these and will check out some of the links. This year I’m trying to share 1+ blog posts on each country we “travel to” as part of our homeschooling in a new series on our blog: Tender Sapling Travelers (http://blog.tendersapling.com/2013/02/07/introducing-tender-sapling-travelers/). Would love your comments anytime to enrich the ideas we share there. Happy virtual globe-trotting!

By: Varya @ littleartists

Varya @ littleartists — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:30:13 +0000

I’ll try to comment this time and hope it stays!
What a great post, as usually Becky. It’s so nice how you bring together the world under one small roof!

By: Mud Hut Mama

Mud Hut Mama — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:39:15 +0000

Beautiful post and a wonderful resolutions. I’m looking forward to the upcoming posts you mentioned!

By: kidworldcitizen

kidworldcitizen — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:35:38 +0000

In reply to mamasmilesblog. Thank you MaryAnne!!! :)

By: kidworldcitizen

kidworldcitizen — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:34:58 +0000

In reply to Kapila. Thank you so much Kapila:). I hope you have a wonderful new year!

By: kidworldcitizen

kidworldcitizen — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:32:54 +0000

In reply to Aubrey. Thank you! I totally agree!!!

By: Aubrey

Aubrey — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:01:19 +0000

Beautifully written: “in order for our children’s generation to be successful in the 21st century, they must be able to understand different perspectives, communicate effectively across cultures, and collaborate with others.” So glad to have found your blog! Exploring other cultures is just as important as our own family traditions. SO important!

By: mamasmilesblog

mamasmilesblog — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 16:16:15 +0000

I love all the ways your family is exploring world culture together!

By: Kapila

Kapila — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:13:35 +0000

Seeing the picture of you and the children really makes me smile! Godwilling, perhaps I’ll have a family that looks like yours one day. Good luck for the new year 🙂

By: kidworldcitizen

kidworldcitizen — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:42:57 +0000

In reply to Rebekah @ The Golden Gleam. It is on-going!! We did it this summer and received a wonderful package from Norway. I am also expecting a package from Finland any day! It was really fun to gather typical kids things from Texas to share with our swap family. My kids were even fascinated by all of the stamps on the envelopes:).

By: kidworldcitizen

kidworldcitizen — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:34:48 +0000

In reply to Natalie. Excellent! I will check it out and look for more posts about myths of the world!

By: kidworldcitizen

kidworldcitizen — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 13:34:14 +0000

In reply to Linda, A Nature Mom. That is so great!!! We are kindred spirits:)- I love all of the activities you are doing with your son. One thing I have NOT done yet is the family tree- I absolutely love genealogy, and I think it would be great to get the kids involved. How exciting for your son to learn about cultures from a young age!

By: Maria

Maria — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:49:46 +0000

No big comment, I just liked this post 🙂

By: Natalie

Natalie — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 04:34:16 +0000

Great goals. We also plan to continue our journey into history and geography with Story of the World and myths around the world. I’ll be sharing tomorrow on my blog the tales from ancient India that we read recently.

By: Linda, A Nature Mom

Linda, A Nature Mom — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 04:00:31 +0000

I wouldn’t call it a resolution, as culture is something we value strongly. We are ALWAYS exploring cultures and geography with our five-year-old, through international cuisine, attending cultural events, discussing our travels (I’ve lived and worked abroad, and my husband has also traveled extensively), reading books about cultures (both current and historic), introduction to different languages and writing forms, making friends with people from other countries, and playing map games and puzzles. Right now, my son (in kindergarten, but a program that combines K-5 students together) is working on a heritage report for school by creating his family tree (for him, Italian, Austro-Hungarian, Finnish, Croatian, and Scottish), and will also be learning about the ancestors of his classmates through the sharing of traditional foods and crafts to learn about and explain their ancestry. I’ll check out the “Around the World in 12 Dishes” project!