Lessons from the family

I have a beautiful family, this I have to say.

I nostalgically remember of all the amazing times we spent together.

At each family meeting (both paternal and maternal sides) the music has always been very present.

In my mother’s side, each men played a different instrument (in backwoodsman rhythm), sing in folk and Christian music. In another room of my grandmother’s small house, the oldest cousins were ​​talking and laughing, while the women washed the dishes, laughing at all the jokes. The children was running freely and cheerfully throughout the house.

In my father’s side, my aunts liked to prepare the tasty food (normally from Bahia, north of Brazil), while sang cheerfully. Most of all family events was at birthdays, meetings of thanksgiving and worship after the church.

All the happiness and music makes me homesick.

Now in my house, my father and mother always took me and my brother to music classes, orchestra, family reunions, math Kumon classes (because I was bad in numbers), swimming lessons, drawing and painting. I had a lot of activities and a lot to think about in my early childhood and teenager years. And when we had left over time, my brother and I would read many educative magazines, books, atlas. But sometimes we hid of our parents to watch some cartoons on tv.

I remember how my parents worked hard to keep this life for the kids. My mother stayed at home to make our education the best. And that is still an example for me as a mother. I’ve to talk about it in other post!

Every time I do something and realize any of my dreams, I always do it with an ethical and religious basis that I got from my parents, and family.

So the culture is a part of me and it is tangible. Now I can see how me and my brother got shaped and became better and unique human beings.

Each person has a culture and a different way to see the world. And when this person is constructing a new family this merges beautifully, when the communication between the couple is suitable.

Globalization has helped reduce cultural boundaries, allowing greater social exchange among nations. This can be seen from an individual who decides to interact with people from different places through the internet; or whatever the required media form; to large coalitions among nations as the European Union, which allows the free transit between individuals within countries.

The insane search for a better quality of life, or new adventures, have contributed to increased emigration and immigration between countries. As a result today we see families that are composed of individuals of diverse origins.

Other families decide to adopt children from a different culture of the parents, as in the case of the Angelina and Brad Pitt. But parents should make the child has contact with their culture or they should procurer so individually?

In my opinion parents should pass on the culture and make children fit where they will live. Nevertheless, the parent task is not to prevent the children to have contact with the culture of where they were born, but encourages them.

"Understanding others makes possible a better knowledge of oneself: any form of identity is complex, for individuals are defined in relation to other people - both individually and collectively - and the various groups to which they owe allegiance, in a constantly shifting pattern."

UNESCO, Learning : The Treasure Within, 1996