Creating Cultural Capital through Storytelling and Traditions.

Our guests share their favorite personal Christmas holiday stories:

• Grant Payne of HomesteadofPayne on Instagram from Episode 58.
• Matt from FarmHopLife.
• Melody and Eric from the Homebirth on the Homestead episodes 38 and 43 tell about how they create memories by playing (usually argumentative) games on Christmas. (Maybe that's a little Festivus thrown in?)
• Scott tells stories of growing up in Iowa during the "Global Cooling" scare. There was snow on the ground from November until March. The lakes and rivers froze, and there were snowmobile tracks along all of the roadways.

Storytelling is important.

You build Cultural Capital through Stories, Songs, Rituals, and Traditions.

Let’s face it – our kids are chronically challenged with their sense of identity, where they fit in the world, and their sense of place.

• Ask yourself – what does Christmas look like to me? (in my memories)
• This Christmas/Holiday season, share the things that are important to you.
• Get your kids out of the bubble. Show them where you grew up. Share what Christmas means to you. Ask them questions about what it means to them.
• Give experiences rather than things. Very few people remember what they got for Christmas last year, let alone five years ago. But they remember the experience, the time, the place.

“You are building Cultural Capital whether you know it or not.” - Perpend

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