When our first child was born, we realized that the language(s) he learns from us will shape him. He will take language skills from our home with him out into the world. We knew we didn’t want to expose him to blame, shame, time-outs, and conditional language. With the globalization of the world, we wanted to […]
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There are so many ways to bring multiculturalism into homeschooling and more generally, our family culture. Some flow more freely and others require a specific effort in our Euro-Latin-Australian family of five. I will share with you multicultural music and media resources that have worked so far, understanding that our oldest is only seven and
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Are you moving to a new country this summer and do you want to know how to make sure that your children have a stellar start in the new school? International children experience more change before age 18 than the average adult in his/her lifetime (David Pollock Third Culture Kids: growing up among worlds), which
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Where are you from? is part of common questions people use when they first meet each other. Yet, many see it as offensive or even simply too difficult to answer. Cross-cultural children, in particular, struggle with that question. Children who have lived or live a globally-mobile life or have parents from different origins/ethnicity will struggle
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Moving abroad to a new culture and leaving behind all that is familiar can be quite stressful, especially for children. When I asked my son Miguel for tips on how to make our upcoming trans-Atlantic move easier, his answer was simple and common sense: “Just find me a good place to have fun, and I’ll
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