How To Blend Cultures Into One Parenting Style

Raising Children In Multiple Cultures

Raising children in an intercultural family has taught me so much. It's taught me how to compromise, be open to new things, understanding, patience, and how to wing it! I have always been around kids and I thought I knew it all.

I figured parenting would be a breeze because I nannied. Nope. Wow, was I wrong. In reality, I learned being a parent was going to be the hardest and most rewarding thing in my life. My children are looking to my husband and I to figure out how to navigate through multiple cultures. They're trying to understand who they are and who they will be. 

 

Instead of having it all figured out, we're learning with them. 

 

Day by day. 

 

Week by week. 

 

Year by year. 

 

Blending Cultures Into One Parenting Style

 

Our family and friends have been a huge support to our family through it all. They give us grace when we screw it up and encouragement when we do something right. 

 

One of the challenges we've faced is how to blend two different philosophies on discipline. My husbands family and my family have raised their children in vastly different ways. It would be easier if one side produced rotten kids and one side produced gems. It would have been easier to form our own philosophy. 

 

They both have so many things to offer. Read my post over at Masala Mommas to see how my husband and I have developed our parenting style and see how we've had to deal with our families to explain why we're doing it differently. 

 

 

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