During the holiday season, many homeschool families like to take a break from the formal lessons and instead include a lot of wonderful ideas that will encourage your children in the heritage that you have in different cultural areas and just the great ideas of the holiday season. Let's give you some of those ideas today.

Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast. I'm Sonia Schaefer. Joining me in our discussion today is Amber O'Neill Johnston. We want to talk about incorporating some good ideas

during the holiday seasons for heritage and cultural encouragement

and the atmosphere that we like to set for our children.

Give us some ideas on that, would you?

Yeah, definitely.

When I think about culture during the holidays

or any time, but especially when we have a little

downtime, things are slower and we're being more intentional.

I think of culture in three areas.

I think about our ethnic culture, right, being an African-American family.

There are a lot of things we do during the holidays that are just very joyful and enriching.

And then we have our American culture that sometimes we don't even recognize.

I didn't understand that until spending Christmas outside of the United States.

And that a lot of the things we do are specific to our nation.

And then we also have our family cultures.

And our family cultures may be pulling in aspects and elements from who knows where that are the traditions that we do within our own home.

Yeah.

So, you know, I start out thinking from those three areas.

That seems to widen the perspective rather than just we're only going to do these things.

Now we've got a lot of, it almost gives us permission

to pull from a lot of different areas that fits our family.

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