“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
Gustav Flaubert, French novelist.
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Hi there,
Travel is part of my identity, it’s who I am and therefore the importance of Geography for kids through fun, but also the knowledge of other culture around us.
At 14 years old, my family moved from Nice, France to Israel. A few years later, at 20 years old, I moved to California, USA by myself. This was one of my dreams😊 ! There I met my future husband and we moved to Prague, Czech Republic for 4 years. From there we moved back to Israel.
Besides my personal experience, as a business woman, I travel frequently to International fairs. I have been in the toy and baby international business for more than 20 years so working with Korean, South African, French, German, Australian and India has been my life that I enjoy very much.
The differences in culture make us more tolerant to the other, the differences from us, make us more understanding, accepting other behavior and is in my opinion gripping. I embrace the differences in how people make business, importance they put in family or work, the way they negotiate, how fast they respond to an email, how straightforward they are, how many apologies they provide…
So for that reason when I travel, I want to learn from the locals, be with the locals, live with them!
2 of my greatest traveling experiences are from Cuba 15 years ago and Kenya last year! I felt how they live, lived with them, understood them, connected with them. Traveling for me, is not staying at a nice hotel and having great shopping or food. I find it much more educational and exciting when I see and feel the local life, talk with them, stay at their place, connect!
I welcome you to read about the trip in Kenya HERE.
While living in the USA, I often felt America is so big and strong that many Americans travel in their country and less overseas. I can understand it is much longer time travel and more expensive. When traveling outside of our own culture/boundaries/language, we feel “small” and have to connect to other senses to communicate. Just a wonderful experience!
While living in Israel, I took my young kids to the biggest Ethiopian celebration so we can all learn about their food, dance, way of celebrate. We were very different there from the mere fact of color, but we learned a lot and I truly believe we learn much more about life and about our capabilities when we meet with different people.
This is my personal way of teaching geography to kids!
This is what I encourage at home, to embrace the different ones, and hope my children will be open to anyone, from any culture, religion or race because we are all people and we all have this need to connect!
By helping your child understand and respect similarities and differences you will also help your child to understand who he is in the context of your race, ethnic group, culture, religion, language and familial history. In so doing, you will provide your child with personally meaningful information and also introduce concepts from anthropology, history, religion, geography, etc
So here are my 8 selected toys that teach Geography for kids, culture, countries, cities in USA and around the world.
i love this game. it is about short term memory, attention to details, learn through play, basic knowledge of many places around the world!
5- GeoPuzzle World for Age 4+
Geography is a great way to get into understanding culture great article!
Thank you for your article! Geography is very important for the full development of children! You are very inspiring!