Teaching My Expat Children to Respect Other Cultures

Change starts with me

Pamela
Age of Awareness
Published in
4 min readMar 31, 2020

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I would like my children to be fluent in Chinese.

It looks like both my girls will be extroverts. They are outgoing and sociable and they possess a fearlessness that I quite admire. At their young age I can already see how their inability to articulate themselves in the local language impedes them. I see it in…

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Pamela
Age of Awareness

I moved to China in 2011. Expat Mum. Freelance writer. Author of— The “M” Word: A Collection of Stories about Miscarriage & Hope.