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Today we just had to share this awesome event from the The Passport Party Project! Check out the details below: is a super! fantastic! Weekend Extravaganza for tw/eens & their parents featuring travel workshops, travel chat, travel prizes & loads of travel fun! MISSION To encourage safe, educational & fun domestic and international travel for tw/eens and [...]
It is said that February 14th originally became a lover’s holiday when the ancient Romans celebrated Lupercalia, an annual fertility festival. Circa 496 AD, the then Pope, Gelasius, declared February 14th to be St. Valentine’s Day, a Christian feast day. On St. Valentine’s Day in AD 1400, a court is opened in Paris. It’s a High Court of Love, dealing with affairs [...]
Celebrating Los Tres Reyes Magos in the U.S.A. This story first appeared on Discovering the World Through My Son’s Eyes. When our baby was six months old he visited Puerto Rico for the first time. We went during the festivities of the Three Kings also known as the Epiphany celebrated on January 6. The Epiphany is [...]
Fútbol, Football, le foot or soccer?!? By Diana Limongi-Gabriele Growing up in a Hispanic household, I wasn’t watching “Monday night football” and the Superbowl is only something I remember coinciding with my birthday. My dad watched fútbol. I remember asking him questions like; what are the rules? What do they do? How long does it go for? I [...]
We’re Different, We’re the Same by Jen Marshall Duncan When my kids were littler, we read this book over and over again. Sometimes we turned the pages looking for noses that looked like the noses of each person in our family. Sometimes we tried to find skin colors that matched the multiple skin colors in [...]
Latino & Jewish: Why I chose Hanukkah over Christmas By Trina Hernandez “Somos judios sefarditas.” “Whaa… ¿En serio?” “Si, mira…” Hearing my Dad explain to me our ancestry was something that made my soul feel complete. I could literally hear a click within me. The questions I had for so long about who I was were [...]
Celebrate the Birth of Bahá’u’lláh {Holy Day Kids Craft} This story first appeared on All Done Monkey. Scroll to the end for a video of my father singing a special holiday song! Do you know what we remember, on the twelfth day of November? If you were a Baha’i child growing up in the US in the [...]
Day of the Dead Skull Craft for Kids Syndicated from Kid World Citizen. As you may know, Day of the Dead- Día de los Muertos- is a holiday celebrated in Mexico, some other countries in Latin America, a few countries in Europe, and the Philippines. In Mexico, skeletons are a big part of Day of the Dead [...]
Family Relocation: Perdón, I Speak English but Hablo Español When we moved eight weeks ago to the city of Atlanta, I was set on making sure that my daughters would keep their Spanish. I vowed that no matter what, they would speak to me and their family in Spanish even if people who don’t speak [...]
Ask a Muslim: New Web Series Promotes Understanding of a Misunderstood Religion It starts with interfaith dialogue—the real, unstaged, not-necessisarily-PC kind. That’s what it takes to change public sentiment about Muslims. As it is, all the dialogue in intrafaith, non-Muslims talking to other non-Muslims about Muslims and Muslims talking to other Muslims about Muslims. The [...]
Mormon.org Reaches Out to Communities by Showcasing Diverse Stories Today I was rolling around on YouTube looking for something fun to watch for my four year old daughter and I happened across an interesting ad from Mormon.org. Before our feature started, they showed a clip of a young school teacher named Sheryl. In the clip, [...]
Today we celebrate Juneteenth. What is Juneteenth? It is the oldest African-American holiday, celebrating freedom and honoring the memory of former slaves. You might know that President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 and wonder–why do we celebrate on June 19th? The answer is that not all slaves knew they were [...]
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