Posts Tagged ‘culture’

Sunday Showcase-Positive Stereotyping is Not Always Positive

We missed our Sunday Showcase last week because of the Carnival. We’re back this week with a fabulous article from Uncharted Parent. She originally gave me this post, How Much of Your Child’s Birth Culture Should You Incorporate into Your Home?, to showcase but after reading this one I couldn’t...

March 7th, 2010 | Culture, Korea, Sunday Showcase | Read More

Kids and Culture: What’s Most Important?

Every year for Chinese New Year, our foster home celebrates the holiday by engaging in all the most common traditions – decorating the home with paper cuttings and chuen lian (door post hangings), lighting fire crackers, eating lots of oranges, making jiaozi (dumplings) and stuffing ourselves until...

February 24th, 2010 | Advocate, China, Culture, Haiti | Read More

Cultural Exchange, or so I Thought

This post is about the exchange student we have living with us, the one that is driving me crazy and refuses to become a member of our family no matter what is said or done for her. I was so excited for her to come. It would open up so many opportunities for us – we would be able to learn about...

January 10th, 2010 | Feature, Korea | Read More

Christmas in China

In 2005, while the husband and I sat in a darkened theater waiting for an acrobat show to start, we couldn’t help but grin as we listened to Christmas carols being piped over the loud speakers. Nor could we help chuckling at the often life-sized Santa posters bedecked with glitter and lights peeking...

December 16th, 2009 | Feature | Read More

Cultural Exchange – One plus One does not equal two

One plus one does not always equal two…yeah my husband would tell me I am wrong, you know the math whiz would say tell me again how you came up with that but really I am serious. See I have been trying to figure out for some time how we are going to raise children who love two different cultures...

December 4th, 2009 | Feature, Korea | Read More

Family Meals: Branching Out

Last year, our family took a trip to Panama and Costa Rica with my parents. My kids loved tasting tropical fruits that they hadn’t seen before. These fruits come in fantastic shapes, sizes and colors, and were a joy to try…even if they were surprisingly sour or slimy! It got me thinking about...

November 16th, 2009 | Culture, Food | Read More

New Research Encourages Going Beyond Culture Camp

The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute just released the executive summary of its recent research study entitled Beyond Culture Camp: Promoting Healthy Identity Formation in Adoption. I’m so excited to see this published study because, although the results aren’t really all that new if...

November 13th, 2009 | Feature, Korea | Read More

Mid-Autumn Moon Festival

On Saturday night, people across Asia will celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival or 中秋节 (Zhōngqiūjié) in Mandarin. This holiday always occurs during the Autumnal Equinox, so people often refer to it as the Moon Festival, since the moon appears bigger, brighter and closer to earth at this time of...

October 1st, 2009 | China, Feature | Read More

What I Hear

When a parent from the China-adoption community says… I chose China because I don’t want to have to deal with birthparents at all. Adult adoptees who talk about the negative sides of adoption are just angry and ungrateful. It’s okay to talk poorly about the country of China...

September 10th, 2009 | Advocate, China | Read More

Little Passports – A Global Adventure

My son is curious about the world. I believe his interest in what is “out there” stems from many factors, but the primary one is an unyielding interest in people. Being adopted internationally has been a springboard of sorts for discussion about how people are different and similar worldwide. His...

September 4th, 2009 | Feature | Read More