WHO ARE WE

We are Selam and Andiy. After Natnael passed away we wanted to continue his task of teaching children about their country of origin and helping families to find their stories.
This blog is to teach the children that go abroad something about their birth country and to give to the adoptive parents a way to search the biological family of their child.
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Is important what you tell your children about themselves.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

ETHIOPIAN CULTURE AND ADOPTED CHILDREN

As far as I have seen the difference between adopted children and Ethiopian children is big.

Ethiopian children have grow up in a context of a family, and neighborhood where they grow up and learn about the culture. If they like it or not they learn the behavior of the Ethiopians, for example the community life, if someone get sick or have a trouble the neighbors try to help him. Here the life is hard and most of the people is poor, but if it is necessary to help each other they do it.

Ethiopian children respect their parents, they are mostly afraid of the father, and the mother is more protective and they love the mother so much, so it make a balanced family. It makes me think of a lions family, the male is the power that protect the family and the mother is the one that take care of the children with love. The way of thinking is changing but the family structure is like this up to now.

Adopted children get something but they also loose something. They can not be like Ethiopian children bu at least they have to know. Love is love but they can not cut away everything, because one day they grow up and they need to know who they are. Probably they will also ask themselves about that. The biological family can not teach them, so they need a way to learn about it.

Because of that I would like to write some cultural and historical subjects in the following posts so you can know and explain your children about the cou


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