Parenting

We were each raised in a particular way, and, as parents, we needed to work together to see what would work best for our family. Part of this is asking: How can we blend some pieces of our upbringing to best benefit our children as they grow up and prepare for life?

As a couple, we share similar beliefs about how to parent and which approaches to take. Coming from the same Jamaican culture largely contributed to how we raise our children.

But although there are similarities with how we were raised, those learnings alone did not create our entire parenting technique. Apart from the usual question of “What are we doing?!” when we became brand-new parents with our oldest, one of the biggest questions we had to ask ourselves was, “What don’t we know?” This query made us realize we had to UNLEARN a fair amount of what we were taught, whether culturally or personally, and reinvent our parenting methods!

Over the years, we have intended to expand our understanding of parenting, explicitly parenting while traveling with kids of all ages. Traveling has provided the ultimate challenge and lesson for us because it created a new level of clarity in terms of connecting with our kids as individuals and parents, and empowering our decision-making skills on all levels.