by FatherTime » Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:29 am
I know that many of you with kids have mixed blood children, half European half Khmer. The mother is Khmer and the family is as well, they live here, and they have that strong Khmer cultural upbringing because of that.
Even so, I still see a lot of these children struggling to speak Khmer, and they all seem very Western in behavior, etc.
My question is, has anyone raised purely Western children here? I wonder how to really get them the Khmer culture, language, etc. without being fully immersed as parents. Of course you could move to Kompong Speu and start a poultry farm, or send the kids to a public school (not an option), but what are some more reasonable ways? Because even the fully Khmer kids in some of the private schools seem to shun the language and choose pizza over prahok.
But it seems like a shame to raise kids here for the cultural experience, but then have them really be just little Westerners and not little Khmerized Westerners. I'm beyond the age of learning to enjoy bulot, but the kids growing up might as well learn to like it, for example.
I know that many of you with kids have mixed blood children, half European half Khmer. The mother is Khmer and the family is as well, they live here, and they have that strong Khmer cultural upbringing because of that.
Even so, I still see a lot of these children struggling to speak Khmer, and they all seem very Western in behavior, etc.
My question is, has anyone raised purely Western children here? I wonder how to really get them the Khmer culture, language, etc. without being fully immersed as parents. Of course you could move to Kompong Speu and start a poultry farm, or send the kids to a public school (not an option), but what are some more reasonable ways? Because even the fully Khmer kids in some of the private schools seem to shun the language and choose pizza over prahok.
But it seems like a shame to raise kids here for the cultural experience, but then have them really be just little Westerners and not little Khmerized Westerners. I'm beyond the age of learning to enjoy bulot, but the kids growing up might as well learn to like it, for example.