Teach Your Children Who They Are
Submitted by Yong
Teaching children about their heritage is important. They get to know who they are and they can teach others to be more tolerant to cultural diversity. After all, America is the great melting pot.
In our lifetime as parents, our influence on our children, our grandchildren, and even those we may never meet is rooted by the teachings of our heritage.
My grandson is part Korean. And for his first birthday, we celebrated what is known in Korean culture as Tol. Parts of the celebration include prayer, gifts, and a feast on the scale of Thanksgiving. As part of the celebration, he was also dressed up in a very colorful outfit called a tol-bok.
It’s great to know that the rich traditions of my culture are being past onto the next generation of children. Plus, seeing the side by side pictures of both father and son in tol-bok is priceless.
This idea was suggested by Yong from Hephzibah, Georgia.
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