When you cannot, or choose not to, move abroad As I watched a recent episode of ‘A Place in the Sun’, ‘Home and Away’ or ‘Winter Sun’ I
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Can our worldview be “multiple”?
Expat attitudes I moved to Denmark not so long ago and was missing one of my best friends from back home. But then a few months later she
Taking field trips with special needs children
Fieldtrips are a part of school life Most schools have them, and international schools are no exception. I just went with my nonverbal special needs child on two.
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
English as a foreign language?
“We don’t speak English, we speak American” Once upon a time I was in Costa Rica trying to buy an ice cream. A simple enough task, surely? However,
Separated by a common language
A humorous look at language differences “My pants are too big!” At the weekend, my daughter had her American friend over to stay. While running up the stairs,
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
25 words that simply don’t exist in English
Wonderfully descriptive words from other languages This has been doing the rounds for a while and I thought it a great fit for this site as it demonstrates
Raising global nomads
Victoria Beckham I was panting away on an exercise bike the other day reading an article in Glamour with Victoria Beckham . No, I don’t mean Vicky was
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