Sharing Cultural Traditions with Kids

publication date: Dec 17, 2007

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author/source: Roswell Beacon

When you practice cultural traditions with children, you are creating a special bond and making memories your child will retain for a lifetime. The group Parents as Teachers suggests five ways to share cultural traditions with young children:

• 1. Sing traditional lullabies to your baby
• 2. Participate in cultural celebrations from the time your child is a baby
• 3. Learn folk tales from your culture and tell them to your child
• 4. Visit older relatives on a regular basis. Encourage the relatives to share cultural practices from their childhood
• 5. Make an album of family pictures illustrating cultural traditions and look at it often with your child