Re: How to raise Bicultural kids ?
Its very simple - raise ALL your children - boys OR girls - to have respect for each other. Foster love of learning, especially of languages, teach cultuao practices, PRACTICE cultural ceremonies. Practice the religion that you and your spouse have decided upon but teach them ALSO about other religions and the practices that come along with them. Celebrate EVERYTHING!! Why NOT? Give them names that have a NICE meaning - as dictated by Islaam. But take care in the culture in which you live so as not to make your child an outcast. As long as the meaning of the name is GOOD then you have chosen well. Everything else comes from the parents. If you raise your children well, if you raise them to respect all people regardless of race, age, color, religion....then you raise a good and well balanced INTERnational child.
very wise words. Thank you
thats how my parents raised myself and my siblings
it was the one thing that kept us grounded as we lived in three diff countries eacxh year, and 3 very diff cultures. and then prepared us to go study, live and work in further different cultures and places.