Planning a visit home

Living overseas: planning a visit home If you’re living overseas and planning a visit home, then there are lots of practicalities which should be taken into consideration when

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Staying connected to ‘home’: part 3

More activities to help your expat child remember ‘home’ Continuing our look at some more activities that we as parents and caregivers can do to honor and celebrate

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Staying connected to ‘home’: part 2

More activities to help your child remember previous homes Continued from here. A look at some more activities that we as parents and caregivers can do to honor

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Staying connected to ‘home’: part 1

Help your expat child to remember ‘home’ “I wish we could go home and have lunch at the chicken lady’s place,” casually remarked my six year old son.

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Expat stress and the trailing spouse

Expat stress My post on expat stress was intended to be a short one, but I obviously struck my own nerve and off it went with a life

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Expat stresses

What stress can an expat possibly have? I don’t assume that everyone who visits this site is excited and thrilled by an overseas move – searches that arrive

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British mum’s website is helping expat parents around the world

ExpatChild in the media Article in the Daily Telegraph, published 13th March 2013 Read the article here…      

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British mom sets up website for expat parents

ExpatChild in the media Article in Kyodo News and The Japan Times, published May 2013 Read the article here…    

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Expat Chat: Interview with a Polish expat in The Netherlands

Polish expat in The Netherlands Interview date – May 2013 What is your name? Olga Where are you originally from? Warsaw, Poland. My husband is German. Where are

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Renaming culture shock

It’s not ‘culture shock’! Now that I have been in the midst of ‘Culture Shock’ for 8 months – I can confidently say we need to change this

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