Many valuesparenting.com families are religious and conservative. To some, this might warn of narrow-mindedness or intolerance. But it certainly does not need to be so. Most valuesparenting.com parents are anxious that their children adopt broadly tolerant attitudes and perspectives at a very young age. Following are twelve simple suggestions relating to the goal of helping our children to be "citizens of the world."
- Become involved in student-exchange programs.
- Collect international stamps.
- Put a map of the world under glass on your kitchen table and talk about events as you locate places.
- Subscribe to National Geographic.
- Learn a new language and learn the heritage and culture that goes with it.
- Discover your own genealogy and study the roots and the countries and cultures of your own ancestors.
- Go to the library. Help children to see that it is the quickest way to reach the world.
- Consider reasonably-priced vacations to Mexico or Canada or a different and ethnic part of America as an alternative to Disneyland or the beach.
- Attend travel lectures and movies.
- Befriend foreign college students or ESL (English as a second language) kids from your children's school.
- Watch for foreign people and seize opportunities to get to know them.
- Attend ethnic festivals.
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