Leaving party ideas for kids

Going-away party ideas for kids Help your children have a smooth transition to a new home with a leaving party with their friends. Saying goodbye is hardly party

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Culture shock in children

Kids experience culture shock too On the whole, most children are more resilient to change than adults. However, culture shock can strike children in its own special way. Depending

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Saying goodbye

Help make moving home easier for your kids For very young children, moving house can be very hard indeed. They have become accustomed to their home, their room,

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Raising multilingual children

Multilingual children When we moved from London to Geneva four years ago, Eldest Son was 3 years-old. Although I’d been speaking to him in Italian since he was

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Moving abroad with children with disabilities

Strategies to help children with disabilities make the transition to a new country Change is difficult for any child but for those with disabilities it can be even

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Keeping track of third culture kids: part 2

While her brothers ‘just’ went AWOL and were soon found again, third culture kid Clara had more dramatic incidents to worry her family about! Emergency overseas Anyway, the

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Keeping track of third culture kids: part 1

Wandering nomads It’s never easy letting go of your children, whatever their age and wherever you live. But when they are still teenagers or young adults and you

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Raising strong children

Quotes on raising strong and resilient children It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. ~ Frederick Douglass Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but

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Holidays and teen turmoil

The expat teen Being a teen can be hard. Being an expat teen can be harder. Despite the perception of friends ‘back home’ that life in the vast

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Learning resilience from my expat American toddler: Part 2

How an expat child deals with transition In Part 1 of Learning resilience from my expat toddler, I talked about the difficult transition my daughter had when we

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