So are you going to go to school to be a doctor, an engineer or something of a similar [professional] caliber? Being born into a South Asian family myself, these questions remain common amongst most the first and second generations of newcomers. Parents worked hard to immigrate to a country wherein their children are given an opportunity for a better …
What Is Your Parenting Style?
Parenting can be a hugely stressful yet rewarding experience. For most parents, the ultimate goal is to raise children who are healthy, happy, well-behaved, well-adjusted and resilient as adults. However, the means to achieve this goal for kids through ‘good parenting’ has been debated for centuries. For example, punishment has been a type of discipline used to curb ‘bad’ behaviour …
What does being a ‘Canadian’ mean to you?
When I was growing up as a young girl, I wanted to desperately ‘fit in’ with the rest of my classmates. During our primary school days, my sister and I were the only children who looked racially ‘different’ from the rest of the students in our elementary school. We had ‘brown skin’ and many of the children were unwelcoming to …
Immigrant Parenting
Every immigrant parent who has moved to a new country has come here with hopes, expectations and intentions of creating a better life. There are dreams and long-term plans to start a journey that will be ‘successful’ and comfortable not only for themselves and their children, but also for their future generations. However, with the challenges of starting a new …
Immigrant Women’s Health Resource Clinic
I was very fortunate to attend the very inspirational local community grand opening of an Immigrant Women’s Health Resource Clinic recently on December 2, 2010 in Surrey, British Columbia. It is a fabulous initiative that recognizes the critical needs and gaps in health care services provided for immigrant women. And it is the hope of all partners in this project …
What are you hungry for?
Food is intrinsically connected to all cultures around the world. Some say that you are what you eat and others use the experience of food to taste, touch, smell, feel and enjoy life’s experiences. Across all rituals and traditions however, eating together gives us a chance to connect, re-connect and spend quality time with our family and loved ones. Many …