Comments on: Balancing Traditions in a Multicultural Family

By: Merry Christmas! Our Multicultural Christmas Traditions - Multicultural Kid Blogs

Tue, 24 Dec 2013 16:09:45 +0000

[...] The Kid World Citizen family has a multicultural celebration reflect their diverse family! For Christmas, they always set up a Nativity scene (and it’s getting bigger every year as they do in Mexico!), and they also celebrate 3 Kings Day on Jan 6th with the traditional rosca de reyes (bread with a baby Jesus inside, “hiding” from King Herod). The family also always go out for Ethiopian food on their Christmas on Jan 7th, and then sometime in January or February they celebrate Chinese New Year. This is a busy time of year for this multicultural family! You can read more about how this family balances their multicultural traditions in this post Becky wrote for the Spanglish B…. [...]

By: Holiday Traditions - Esperanza Education

Holiday Traditions - Esperanza Education — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 14:02:28 +0000

[...] As always I read some other bloggers’ ideas about blending family traditions and one that inspired me was from Kid World Citizen‘s Becky Morales about balancing traditions in her multicultural family. [...]

By: Becky

Becky — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 04:21:33 +0000

Ha!:) I love the Forest Gump twist:). So true, so true!!

I think one component of our mix is that, because our sons are adopted from cultures that neither my husband or I share, we are always trying to make sure we emphasize and celebrate their heritage. We are fortunate to live in an area that is about 50% Asian, so lots of opportunities for my son from China, but it is more difficult to find Ethiopian culture and we have to be very intentional to include his celebrations. I am always looking for ways to incorporate their cultures into our mix!

By: Aisha from expatlog

Aisha from expatlog — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 19:28:12 +0000

Whew!!! Sounds busy! We’re a bit more relaxed in our family. Between the five of us we represent England, Ireland, Scotland and Pakistan and although we’re muslim we share in some of the traditional cultural and religious celebrations of our respective countries and the country we presently live in (Canada).
As Forrest Gump was fond of saying, “Life is like a box of chocolates” and while we don’t attempt to eat the entire box, we certainly savor the ones we DO try.