The Netherlands is known around the world for being a country with liberal, progressive ideas and being international orientated. The Dutch often pride themselves on their tolerance for other cultures and religions, historically welcoming everyone from around the world who would want to make the Netherlands their home. As a result, the Netherlands has one […]
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My first day in Somalia my two-year old daughter fell off the roof and I had to make spaghetti from tomatoes (no jar of Ragu) and beef (ground by yours truly) and noodles boiled in water that my husband drew from a cistern out front. Once we figured out how to keep kids from falling
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I have two boys ages 10 and 7 who for a large part of their lives were monolingual, English speakers. We had always wanted to raise multilingual kids and introduce them to Arabic and French (the languages of my husband’s home country – Morocco). But we lacked the resources and drive to do so. Then
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