Children are discerning. They are constantly absorbing their surroundings and building perceptions that will uphold the foundation of their worldview.

We can begin teaching our children to embrace cultural and ethnic variations best when we, as parents, are equipped with a toolbelt of knowledge, understanding, and a willingness to learn. 

A teachable heart is critical to all aspects of good parenting. It is especially important in the sensitive area of race, ethnicity, and culture.

Culture on the other hand is a way of life of a group of people- the behaviours, symbols, values, beliefs that people accept, not really thinking about them and are passed by mostly communication and imitation from one generation to another. With regards to African culture, people perceive most of its practices as something which is devilish in the sense that a lot of its practices are attributed to gods. 

We neeed to loook at some values that do not contradict with the word of God but still help to upbring children into better persons, 

in this brocken society as parent look at teaching children values that shape them