International contact arrangements

It is very important that children are able to maintain and develop good relationships with both parents and their wider families regardless of the physical distances between them.

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Staying connected to your child at boarding school

Keeping in touch with boarders Enrolling your child in a boarding school is a huge and heart wrenching decision and not one that you took lightly. Once made

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How to manage family relationships from afar

How to keep distant family close If you are close to your family then it is obviously beneficial to all parties involved if you try to maintain these

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Causes of Expat Child Syndrome

Expat Child Syndrome – know the causes so you can help your child In my previous post about Expat Child Syndrome, I introduced you to the condition, which

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When Summer seems to be the hardest word

Summer in expat life In Denmark, we look forward to the summer. We really do. We endure six hour days in December and the sort of vitamin D

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How to keep up to date with home

Keeping the home connections alive When you first move overseas your whole life is dictated by everything new around you. So even though you might feel emotionally attached to

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Christmas abroad

How to experience Christmas overseas Christmas is swathed in cultural and family tradition so living overseas can mean a very different Christmas experience for you! Having spent Christmas

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How to maintain family bonds across borders

How to keep in touch across borders I wrote some time ago about the difficulties of staying in touch with loved ones when you expatriate and how this

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Modern technology and staying in touch

Keeping in touch as an expat The autumn seems to bring a spate of family birthdays – my children, mother-in-law, step-mother, sister-in-law, niece, father and my sister all

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Keeping in touch or lack of freedom?

Keeping track of third culture kids Originally published in January 2013 this article explains how some ‘expat kids’ turn out… …Usually with a wandering, global nomad habit! It

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