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Scenario

How to teach communal values in individualistic environments

My eight-year-old daughter keeps asking why she has to share her toys with her cousins when they visit and I struggle to explain Ubuntu to a child who goes to American school.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The parent must translate ancestral philosophies into language and concepts a culturally hybrid child can understand and embrace.

Your guide for this
Rabia
Rabia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with African communal parenting traditions?”

Peri

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