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[quote=Anonymous]Here's my take and has worked well for our family (2 elementary kids) thus far. I want to raise intelligent, aware citizens of the world who care about humanity as a whole.

-We live in Chicago so we have access to Broadway, top notch art, science, and history museums, many smaller niche museums, etc.
-We participate in as many free things as we can- jazz fest, cultural center activities, public art programs, farmers markets.
-Our kids attend public school, but we world school on breaks and summer. We do home exchanges and have been all over the world. We swap houses with families for 2 weeks-3 months and have done things like care for farm animals, help at a vineyard in Italy, an orchard in Thailand, an off the grid bungalow in Chile. We've done cooking classes with amazing  grandmas in Vietnam, Greece, and Iceland. We live like locals when we exchange and immerse ourselves in the language, lifestyle, food, local art/music/cultural scenes, and have made wonderful friends all over the world. 
-We volunteer with refugees. Just a few weeks ago we worked with an Afghani family who invited us to stay for a meal. We had zero language in common as they do not speak any English and we only speak English fluently. The eldest son washed our hands before we ate a 6 course meal on their floor over 2.5 hours. They gave us so much more than we gave them that day and we all felt it.
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