Cultural Kaleidoscope Contest: And the Winners Are...
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Thank you to everyone who participated in the Cultural Kaleidoscope Contest! Wow, I'm so impressed with how you inspire your children to learn more about different cultures, customs and languages!
Well, after reading all of your wonderful blog posts and much deliberation we have determined the winners! Drum roll, please...
First off, congratulations to the speedy moms who were the first ten to post an entry! I hope you have received your DVD and are enjoying watching it with your children.
And, the winner who was randomly selected to win a set of DVD's is Jessie Voigts!
But wait, the winning continues...with the top three moms who got the most blog comments by midnight November 26th and who will also get sets of four Global Wonders DVDs are:
Minnemom who had the most comments totalling 12!
In second place was BeckyB with 7!
And, in third place was Jeannette with 5 comments!
Way to get people talking, ladies!!!
And, finally the moment we've all been waiting for...the grand prize winner, who was selected by the experts at Global Wonders for the post that presented the most creative ways moms inspire children to learn more about the customs, languages and lifestyles of others is....
Congratulations Jen M. - Bilingualfun.blogspot.com - "A Cultural Kaleidoscope for our Childr... You will win a set of four DVDs, your post will be featured on GlobalWonders.com and you get an above-the-fold link (on TwitterMoms.com) to your winning blog entry!
Thank you again to all who participated! It was fun reading all of your posts!
Megan
CONTEST DETAILS:
Now more than ever, we are raising our children in a multi-cultural world and globally connected society. Each individual culture and distinct experience adds to a colorful and enriching view of the world. In many respects, we live in a cultural kaleidoscope.
Our friends at Global Wonders have developed a contest of sorts, designed around a simple question for the blogging moms here at TwitterMoms:
How do you inspire your children to learn more not only about their own culture, but the customs, languages and lifestyles of others?
To participate in the Cultural Kaleidoscope Blogging Contest, simply write a post on your blog describing how you help your children discover and appreciate other cultures by answering the question above. Share your tips, tricks and secrets for teaching your children about different cultures from across the neighborhood and around the globe. Apart from that, the only requirement we ask is that your post includes at least one link to GlobalWonders.com and one link back to this page.
To enter your blog post in the contest, simply return to this discussion page, post a comment below summarizing your blog post in a paragraph or two, and include an active link to your qualifying blog entry. That’s it!
About Global Wonders
Global Wonders is a new DVD series developed specifically to encourage children to share, compare and discover the cultures of their family, friends and the world. While Global Wonders can help children gain a more enlightened and educated view of the world around them, the experts there recognize that the real education comes from you – their mom.
Find more videos like this on twitter moms
Well, after reading all of your wonderful blog posts and much deliberation we have determined the winners! Drum roll, please...
First off, congratulations to the speedy moms who were the first ten to post an entry! I hope you have received your DVD and are enjoying watching it with your children.
And, the winner who was randomly selected to win a set of DVD's is Jessie Voigts!
But wait, the winning continues...with the top three moms who got the most blog comments by midnight November 26th and who will also get sets of four Global Wonders DVDs are:
Minnemom who had the most comments totalling 12!
In second place was BeckyB with 7!
And, in third place was Jeannette with 5 comments!
Way to get people talking, ladies!!!
And, finally the moment we've all been waiting for...the grand prize winner, who was selected by the experts at Global Wonders for the post that presented the most creative ways moms inspire children to learn more about the customs, languages and lifestyles of others is....
Congratulations Jen M. - Bilingualfun.blogspot.com - "A Cultural Kaleidoscope for our Childr... You will win a set of four DVDs, your post will be featured on GlobalWonders.com and you get an above-the-fold link (on TwitterMoms.com) to your winning blog entry!
Thank you again to all who participated! It was fun reading all of your posts!
Megan
CONTEST DETAILS:
Now more than ever, we are raising our children in a multi-cultural world and globally connected society. Each individual culture and distinct experience adds to a colorful and enriching view of the world. In many respects, we live in a cultural kaleidoscope.
Our friends at Global Wonders have developed a contest of sorts, designed around a simple question for the blogging moms here at TwitterMoms:
How do you inspire your children to learn more not only about their own culture, but the customs, languages and lifestyles of others?
How it Works
To participate in the Cultural Kaleidoscope Blogging Contest, simply write a post on your blog describing how you help your children discover and appreciate other cultures by answering the question above. Share your tips, tricks and secrets for teaching your children about different cultures from across the neighborhood and around the globe. Apart from that, the only requirement we ask is that your post includes at least one link to GlobalWonders.com and one link back to this page.
To enter your blog post in the contest, simply return to this discussion page, post a comment below summarizing your blog post in a paragraph or two, and include an active link to your qualifying blog entry. That’s it!
PRIZES & AWARDS
- The first ten bloggers to post REAL entries will get a Global Wonders DVD. You can keep it or give it away as a gift or use it as a prize for your own blog readers. Just make sure your post is thoughtful and considered. Haste makes waste!
- One random winner will be selected from all the entries posted here before midnight PST, November 26th (the day before Thanksgiving) and will win a set of four Global Wonders DVDs.
- The top three moms who get the most blog comments by midnight November 26th PST, will also get sets of four Global Wonders DVDs.
- The experts at Global Wonders will select a final winner based on the post that presents the most creative ways moms inspire children to learn more about the customs, languages and lifestyles of others. This person will get not only a set of four DVDs, but get their post featured on GlobalWonders.com and an above-the-fold link (on TwitterMoms.com) to your winning blog entry for the remainder of 2008!
Final winners will be announced December 3, 2008!
About Global Wonders
Global Wonders is a new DVD series developed specifically to encourage children to share, compare and discover the cultures of their family, friends and the world. While Global Wonders can help children gain a more enlightened and educated view of the world around them, the experts there recognize that the real education comes from you – their mom.
Find more videos like this on twitter moms
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Permalink Reply by Amanda on -
Hi Meagan, We teach our three children about Multi-Cultural and our own heritage through travel and meeting different cultures and museums about our own past culture of where we live and how have progressed through the years. I felt this strongly to take our children, homeschool them as we travelled so they could get first hand experience in the difference in cultures that we didn't always experience when solely in our home and home town. We also have taken them to cities like Toronto where many cultures exist as in Chinatown to get a feel but mainly through meeting and speaking with other families who come from a different background then ours.
You can read more in my Nabweekly.ca blog article..."Global Wonders and so did we"
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Permalink Reply by Celeste Underwood on -
I was brought up in Northern Indiana where when the immigrants moved to America they clustered together and kept "their own". My background is Greek, and I grew up in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
As I got older I saw some things in these 'clusters' that I really didn't like, not that I don't like the Greek customs, they are some of the best and most fun in my opinion... who can not like baklava?! Anyway, I decided when I had children I was not going to limit their vision of the world to just the Greek culture.
I married a non Greek, and moved away from the Greek church. I did have some eye openers, I thought everyone ate like my family did, I thought all of the world was my Greek world, but much to my surprise and really delight was that there is a great world of different cultures out there, and I was about to really learn and grow by learning; and I did.
My children were raised in Texas, talk about culture, but I also found that we opened up the world for them. Our attitude was that we wanted our children to experience all types of life, histories, and traditions.
We made sure that the exposure that the kids got was truly open, and not "stifled" with any of the opinions that might interfere with their own ideas and enjoyment of what others have to offer.
In Texas we were all exposed to the Spanish language which was spoken freely. There were many street fairs, and events to attend. We of course found that culture to be happy, and colorful.
The entire family did some missionary work in Mexico to build houses for the poor in the cities. When you experience other cultures first hand there is a awareness of just why "they" do what "they" do that is different from what you do. My children will never forget that experience of giving and learning.
In our current lives we have neighbors that left Sierra Leone Africa. It's funny, we don't even notice the color difference. They have come to our house and told us fascinating stories of the way of life that was not only for them, but others in the country. When you listen with an open mind and heart the world becomes a world of many different ways of looking at things. We learn from our neighbors of the different customs, the reasons the women are treated the way they are, and their attitude of life.
We have never been to foreign countries to travel the world, but our world is getting so very small, and the media shows us only the worst of the different cultures sometimes. It is such a refreshing healthy feeling to get to know others of different cultures and to try to understand where they have been, why they are the way they are.
I will end with this. When I was a child in Northern Indiana a neighbor of ours had a relative child visit from Houston, Texas. This child was talking with his typical Texas drawl, and one of my brothers (about 7 years old at the time) looked at him and said, "You talk with an accent". This child also about 7 looked at him and said "no I don't..... YOU do!".
Blessings to all of us
Celeste
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Permalink Reply by Dominique Goh on -
Have blogged about the contest and placed my entry on my site :)
I wrote about Understanding other cultures
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Permalink Reply by Jen M on -
Excellent topic Megan! This is near and dear to my heart!! Thank you for the opportunity. We are raising our children in a bilingual household and I am a bilingual educator, so this topic is something I am SO passionate about. Here is my blog post, http://bilingualfun.blogspot.com/.
Thank you again! Global Wonders is a superb resource!
Jen M.
www.bilingualfun.com
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