Different Family Traditions In The World | Parenting Around The World 

Have you started any family traditions and what are they?

Loved this! Love learning about other cultures!

Love the sneaky tooth fairy joke at the end!!! I'm from Scotland ( UK ). I love the sound of the Sweedish approach :D

In Montenegro, babies wear a red bracelet(called a 33 knot bracelet) to ward off evil spirits and jealousy. They're mostly made by the Orthodox churches, so its a religious thing. Here, a child doesnt have a haircut until after the first year. Also, whoever first sees the babies first tooth has to buy the first pair of shoes. Though this isnt followed so much anymore as baby shoes are very expensive. Mum and the new baby are expected to stay in the house for the first 40days and not accept any visitors either.

Very familiar with small children left in a well stuffed carriage or crib out in the middle of a winter day in Canada. Most of my relatives come from Iceland. It's only very recently the latest generation have stopped doing it.

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Can I use your video for my class?

Like Trinidad and Tobago in Cuba you put the asavache,or black bead on the baby to ward off the evil eye😅I wonder where it originates

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cool 1 comment like learning new things from you

Never heard of a naming thing and am from the uk so ....

Wait, you didnt show any traditions from India, one of the most culturally intricate countires of the world!!!

If I get stoned and sing all night long it's a family tradition!

Funny that the Chinese lady thought elimination communication is a no no.

Being a Chinese, it's disheartening to see the two things that the couple has to share for China are... so negative and biased and simply not true. Their statements are so apparently misleading and reflect only their own narrowed view of Chinese culture and traditions. First of all, i dont think the husband is the appropriate advocacy for Chinese culture. Secondly, about their statements: 1. "Sitting the month" only means you take the first month after giving birth as the biggest opportunity to rest and recover. And what you do varies. You absolutely don't have to stay in bed for a month and experience is personal and they cannot speak for everyone else saying it's just an absolutely awful thing. When the husband said "i dont know if anyone enjoys it". Um, does any woman enjoy the postpartum period? 2. You can just google and note that the first diaper was invented in 1942 FOR THE WORLD. So for them to say "diaper is a new thing to China” , what's new? As far as I know the current generations of Chinese people have all moved to using diapers as evidence by tons and tons of discussions online and everyone in my small town does. Before that, Chinese people use diaper made with fabrics (referred as 尿布 / Niao Bu / pee cloth) and definitely NOT a pervasive amount of grandmas encourage their infants pee by the road (not a common thing that it would be called "tradition"). Some REAL traditions that Chinese do share: 1. similar to Vietnam in above video, when a baby turns into one year old, families gather and give the baby a variety of things to grab from. Whatever they pick up is viewed as a prediction of their future career (only in an entertaining way, not forcing them to be). 2. Chicken soup is one of the traditional food we give to women after giving birth for nutrition.

I live in the UK. I've never heard of anyone doing a 'naming ceremony'. Baptisms and Christenings, yes, but 'naming ceremonies'... where did this guy get that information from? It's totally false.