The Cross-Cultural Parenting Playbook - by Sangita Shresthova

About the Book

This book offers real-life stories, strategies and activities to help families raise cross-cultural kids. Based on interviews and lived experience, it explores how parents can use media to build strong cross-cultural identities, honor hybrid heritage, and navigate the joys and challenges of cross-cultural parenting.

Book Synopsis

This book offers real-life stories, strategies and activities to help families raise cross-cultural kids. Based on interviews and lived experience, it explores how parents can use media to build strong cross-cultural identities, honor hybrid heritage, and navigate the joys and challenges of cross-cultural parenting.

Review Quotes

A fresh and innovative approach to using today's technology to support families raising cross-cultural children. An important read for anyone seeking new methods to help children deal with the increasing cultural complexity so many face and use the gifts they receive from such a childhood as they move into adulthood. Well done!

A compelling and insightful analysis into the world of bi-cultural parenting that brings to the fore the complexities and joys of raising children in a cross-cultural environment. Supported by extensive research and thought-provoking questions, the author takes us on a journey that is both highly entertaining and increasingly relevant.

As a parent in a multicultural family, I found Sangita Shresthova's book both edifying and thought-provoking. I can't count the number of times I said out loud, 'Exactly!' or the times I thought, 'If only [insert name of friend from a monocultural nuclear family] would read this...' Inspiring reading.

Enriched with multidisciplinary research and real stories, this is an engaging look at how media, common sense and cultural sensitivity can help us raise happy and successful cross-cultural children.

About the Author

Sangita Shresthova is a Czech-Nepalese media researcher with expertise in popular culture, transmedia and civic engagement. She grew up between Prague and Kathmandu and has since called many cities home. She currently lives in Los Angeles and works as an Associate Research Professor of Communication at the University of Southern California. She is the co-author of several books, including Transformative Media Pedagogies and Practicing Futures: The Civic Imagination Action Handbook. As a mother raising a multiracial, multilingual, cross-cultural child, her personal journey fuels her commitment to bridging cultural and social divides.