Keeping Kids Connected To Their Roots While Staying Abroad!

As moving overseas has become increasingly popular and common in the past years, helping kids maintain a strong connection with roots living in a foreign country can be difficult. If you're an expat parent sharing the same concern, we are glad you found us. Here are some ways to connect with culture and traditions while living abroad

Encourage Mother Tongue At Home

Encourage speaking your native language at home. Language plays a vital role in preserving cultural ties. It is a fundamental aspect of any culture and fostering its use at home helps preserve a strong cultural connection. When you stay abroad, the majority of your child's time is spent in an environment where they interact with the locals there, so it's only natural for them to pick up on the local language and use it to converse all the time. But when they are at home with you, use it as an opportunity to promote your mother tongue. They might have an accent while speaking but it's alright, with practice comes perfection. So keep encouraging them, learning the new language will help them better understand and communicate.

Celebrate Festivals

Share key cultural traditions with them and explain the historical significance of these events. Make an effort to actively involve them in the celebrations. and activities creating lasting memories for the day. They may take some time to absorb the activities at the beginning as the people they interact with do not partake in the same things, but soon they will come to appreciate this difference and take part in the festivities with more enthusiasm. Celebrating festivals also ensures that they do not feel alienated when they go to motherland & mingle with the local people for the same events

Movies, Books And Other Art

Movies, books and art are the best ways to teach people something that has the ability to capture the mind and the soul. Dig up some of those old movies that you used to watch when you were younger and share them during movie nights. Your child might struggle to follow parts of the film due to the language barrier so be prepared to step in and help with translations. Many countries now screen international and regional movies in theaters. In present times you can easily get movies on a streaming platform online too. Storybooks and poems are also great materials and they come in handy especially when you want them to learn how to read and writeIn your native language,

Plan A Visit Home

Bond with relatives and explore the place where you grew up. Living abroad, kids may have only interacted with a handful of members from the same community as yours. When they visit your native place they will gain a bigger exposure and they're sure to have a wonderful time with their cousins. During the visit once you return, make it a point to keep them connected to through video conferences

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