These days, the need for children to be acquainted with the culture of their parents is right before our eyes, quickly fading, and it does not seem to be a big deal because we appear to be okay with it.
What is culture?
Culture is the way of life of a people. And it is so appalling that this way of life is being abandoned in favour of adopting other people's ways of life, all in the name of being civilised.
When I marry and start having children, no matter how hard the modern world tries to buy them off, my children will be soaked in my tradition from A to Z.
You know, these days, we have children or students in school being forced to learn multiple official languages because of how helpful it will be when they encounter an opportunity that demands such languages. That is exactly how I will make it compulsory for my children to learn my language as well.
Not only in schools do children, students, and individuals go about learning other languages—some even take it as a personal task to learn those languages via apps like Duolingo. That is how seriously my children will be guided to learn my dialect. My wife and I will make it a compulsory thing to use the language as the only means of communication at home, and with that, it will be very easy for the children to pick it up. This will happen if we are living in the city and not in the village.
Language is very important; it is the quickest way to identify where someone is from, and my children must have their identification in full dose.
The deep traditions are not going to be left out, as long as they are not being initiated into a spiritual kingdom. In my place, there are so many traditional practices that every child of the land should know, and my children are not going to be left out. There are things like some traditional rites during burial events which, no matter how civilised a family or an individual becomes, they must submit to in the end. These rites do not mean spiritual things or submitting to spirits, no. They are just simple ways of operation that always serve as a means of honouring the land. An example is when someone dies, the burial event lasts for three days, and within these days, many functions are carried out. So, it is never heard of that a family from the city would travel down to the village to bury a deceased relative and round off everything within a day. No, it cannot happen that way. Although some practices, such as barbing hair to honour the dead, have been abandoned due to the civilised era, my children must still know all of this.
In my current city of residence, I do not understand their language, so I just play along whenever we go to church and they play their music. But Anytime someone happens to play my kind of music in church, that day feels like Christmas to me. So music is not left out either. I must let them have a clue about the kind of music we have in my culture.
Thank You!