The family left behind

When adult children move abroad with their children Imagine… You’ve invested years of your life, raising, nurturing and loving your child. You have watched her grow, watched her

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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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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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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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How we keep in touch with friends and family overseas

What do you use to keep in touch with your friends and family in other countries? A selection of my Facebook community answered this question recently. It looks

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Home is where the heart is…

Home is where the heart is… …which for me is a bit all over the place, so I suppose I’m a citizen of the planet (cue Paul Simon

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Time zone maths

What time is it in…? Keeping in touch with your friends and family in various parts of the world is easy enough in these days of the social

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Keeping in touch while overseas

Keep in touch Keeping in touch with your family and friends when you live overseas is simple in these days of modern technology. The internet has revolutionised such

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