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Ages & Stages: 11-18
Parent's Music It is hard to encourage a teenager, or soon to be teenager, that any other music or dancing than their own is interesting or worth learning about. However, it is still worth a try. In today’s modern world, more and more musicians are making “modern” music in their own language. See if you can dig around on the internet and ask around to see what you can find. Talk your children into seeing what they can find. Have fun with this project and share what you find with each other – sometimes it can be a great laugh. Another fun way to share modern music with your children is to share with them the “modern” music of your childhood when you were their ages. There is nothing more fun than sharing what you thought was “cool” music back then with your teenagers. Not only will these activities get your children involved in your childhood and give them a perspective on your life in another country, it will be a wonderful opportunity for parent-child bonding. Sharing such memories with your children, especially ones where all of you are laughing together about your tastes as a youth, will help instill in them the cross-cultural links between who you are and who they are. It is very possible that your teenagers are going through levels of ambivalence now and then about who they are and where they fit into the whole scheme of things. By sharing bits of your past you are showing them that you too were like them, despite the fact that you grew up in a different country with a different culture. Your children probably waver between enjoying being unique from their monolingual friends and wanting to fit in more. It is our job to remind them that “fitting in” is relative. After all, we are only human.
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