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Raising Children with Caribbean Heritage

A heritage plan for children raised abroad: grandparents and cousins kept close, food, music and stories at home, hard conversations prepared for, and trips and traditions that make home feel like theirs.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Raising Children with Caribbean Heritage, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Starter tasks

🌴 Caribbean Life & Diaspora

Raising Children with Caribbean Heritage

Raising children abroad who know where they come from: food, music, stories, language, trips home, family ties and conversations about identity.

  1. What we want our children to carry from home
  2. Heritage plan agreed with your co-parent
  3. Family directory of aunties, uncles and godparents
  4. Heritage starting point for each child
  5. Three-generation family tree for the children's wall
  6. Caribbean children's bookshelf
  7. Family playlist the children can sing along to
  8. Heritage keepsake box for each child
  9. Map of where the family lives and comes from
  10. Sunday lunch the children help cook
  11. Weekly video call with grandparents back home
  12. Island of the month at home
  13. Folk tale bedtime rotation
  14. Word of the week on the fridge
  15. Cards and voice notes for family birthdays back home
  16. Supervised cousin connection across countries
  17. The children's heritage calendar for the year
  18. Quarterly heritage check-in between parents
  19. Parent's refresher on the history of home
  20. Talking about slavery and Emancipation at each age
  21. Indentureship and other arrival stories for children
  22. Ring games and folk songs from home
  23. Cooking ladder for children by age
  24. Children interviewing their grandparents
  25. Answering where are you from
  26. Manners and respect customs from home
  27. Choosing a language approach the family can keep
  28. Choosing a Saturday school, pan side or dance class
  29. Finding a community where the children see themselves
  30. Preparing for conversations about race and colourism
  31. Agreeing boundaries with relatives on discipline and comments
  32. Hair care routine and school hair policy check
  33. Screen time that carries the heritage
  34. Bringing Caribbean heritage into the school
  35. Preparing a young child for their first trip home
  36. Teenager's summer with family back home
  37. Children's mas at a carnival abroad
  38. School culture day outfit and dish
  39. Cousins' heritage day in your city
  40. Welcoming a new baby with family traditions
  41. Heritage in the baby and toddler years
  42. Building pride in the primary school years
  43. Teenagers who drift away from the culture
  44. Raising a child of mixed heritage
  45. Adoptive, foster or step-parent of a Caribbean-heritage child
  46. Second-generation parent learning alongside the children
  47. Co-parenting heritage across two households
  48. A heritage book for each child at eighteen
  49. Teen-led family heritage project
  50. Starting a Caribbean children's Saturday club

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

What we want our children to carry from home

Most parents abroad hope their children will know where they come from, but few have written down what that means in practice: which islands, which foods, which faith, which words, which values. A one-page heritage statement listing what you most want each child to carry by eighteen turns a vague wish into a short list you can act on.

First tasks

  • Write down every island and heritage each child inherits from both sides
  • List what you want the children to know, cook, sing or say by eighteen
  • Cut the list to the five to eight priorities that matter most
  • Note two things you are willing to let go of without guilt

Heritage plan agreed with your co-parent

Two parents often carry different islands, faiths or levels of attachment: a Jamaican mother and a Vincentian father, or a Trinidadian father and a Scottish mother who loves the food but never heard the stories. Agreeing the plan together stops one parent becoming the lone culture keeper and the children picking up mixed messages.

First tasks

  • Swap your heritage wish lists with your co-parent
  • Agree three priorities for the coming twelve months
  • Decide which parent leads on each priority
  • Write down any point you disagree on and how you will handle it for now

Family directory of aunties, uncles and godparents

Children abroad meet a stream of aunties and uncles on video calls without knowing who is a blood relative, a godparent or a neighbour who became family. A picture directory with each person's name, what the children call them and where they live helps them place people before the next call, visit or family funeral. It also saves the awkward silence when a relative asks, 'You remember me?'

First tasks

  • Ask a parent or aunt for photos of each close relative and godparent
  • Write each person's name, family nickname and relationship to the children
  • Add the town and country where each person lives now
  • Print the directory or save it as a shared photo album
  • Update the directory after births, marriages and moves @recurring(yearly)

Make it yours.

Install Raising Children with Caribbean Heritage, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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