"Raising Global Children" by Berdan and Berdan


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"Today's children need to develop a global mindset -- an indispensable tool for success.


Together, as parents and educators, we must instill in our children an interest in learning about the world early on. Raising Global Children provides the rationale and concrete steps you can take to open up the world to young people and to do so in a fun and entertaining way without spending a whole lot of money. Packed with practical information, hundreds of tips and dozens of real-life stories, this combination parenting-educational advocacy book is the first of its kind to detail what raising global children means, why global awareness is important and how to develop a global mindset.


In Raising Global Children, the authors make a strong case for the importance of both small and big ways that adults can influence and shape the development of a global mindset in children, including:



  • Encouraging curiosity, empathy, flexibility and independence

  • Supporting learning a second language as early as possible</l>

  • Exploring culture through books, food, music and friends

  • Expanding a child's world through travel at home and abroad

  • Helping teens to spread their own global wings

  • Advocating for teaching global education in schools


Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals alike, Raising Global Children is filled with inspiring advice that will change the way you think about raising and educating children."

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Thinking Outside the "American Box"

By Scott D. Seligman on November 4, 2013



Getting kids to think outside of the "American box" is vitally important in this brave, new, globalized world in which America retains its importance, but isn't necessarily the center of the universe it once was. The authors examine the arguments for exposing kids to the world outside their immediate experience and give tons of practical advice on how to do it. This is a must read for parents who want to do well by their kids and prepare them for international success.






An Encouraging Read Full of Practical Ideas

By Hope Johnson on November 21, 2013


Format: Paperback

The Berdan’s book is an excellent guide for practically preparing children to thrive in an increasingly globalized world, but it is more than that: it is a celebration of the new perspectives and widening of horizons that exposure to other cultures and languages can have on a child. As someone who became interested in Russia at the age of twelve and is now working there, the experiences of the many people interviewed for the book ring true. For many of those interviewed, it was exposure to a country or people group at a young age that fascinated them and eventually led them to a global career.

Besides giving practical advice to parents on how to naturally integrate a global perspective into their family’s everyday life, the book’s focus on learning foreign languages is especially pertinent to today’s children. Although proficiency in a foreign language is an increasingly marketable skill, children are not often provided with the opportunities to study a second language at a young age. This issue is treated not as an unchangeable state of affairs, but as a solvable problem that parents can take part in at the grassroots level. An encouraging read full of practical ideas, I would recommend this book to any parents who desire to plant the seeds of a global perspective in their children.






Preparing families and kids for a bright future

By Rebecca W on November 14, 2013


Format: Kindle Edition

Today's world is both far bigger and far smaller than the world I grew up in. Bigger, because even little kids have heard of places like China and India and Brazil - and NOT as places which are poor, so kids should clean their plates in honor of the starving in. Smaller, because now more than ever, what happens in Beijing or Brasilia is going to affect people growing up in Buffalo or Boise. This book helps parents and teachers help the kids in their care grow up ready to meet and embrace the challenges of the big-little world they face. I hope and believe that parents reading it will raise kids ready to be part of a positive re-engagement of America with the rest of our changing and growing world.


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Cultivating A Global Perspective

By Steve Finikiotis on December 1, 2013


Format: Kindle Edition

There's never been a more vitally important time than the present to prepare young people for living and working in a global world. And while ‘global mindedness’ is valuable today, it will be an indispensable competency in tomorrow’s economy.



"Raising Global Children" is an insightful guide for readying a new generation of globally minded citizens and professionals. It provides a practical set of tools, resources and tips for cultivating the skills and disposition needed to thrive in an interconnected world.



This superb book is recommended for parents, instructors and anyone else interested in fostering in children an appreciation for global diversity.