by The summers here in Pittsburgh are fun – we take lots of trips to the pool, we try to go camping, we join the library book club and we do a lot of exploring around the city. But this summer, we have a new goal: the kids want to start learning another language and […]
France is not flat and I have proofs!
by Hello dear readers! When Leanna (All done Monkey) told me that a post about Geography was authorless for the end of October, I jumped on the occasion to talk about my home country, France. In a fun way, because French people are not known to be boring… (right?) For two weeks I had the […]
Markets around the World
by Summer is ending, new vegetables and fruits adorn the markets’ stands and we will soon start to prepare pumpkin soups and grilled chestnuts here in Germany. But what of markets in other part of the world? How do they look like? What type of food and other local products are sold? To answer these […]
Multicultural Meal Plan: French School Dinners {La Famille Brown}
by Our guest writer, Becky of La Famille Brown, describes a multicultural meal plan at her son’s school in France. Last September Reuben, our 4 year old, started school full time in France. Previously we had been living in London, UK, and although we had prepared him as much as we could it was still […]
Styl’U: French urban culture for children
by One of the activities my children and I have discovered in our 8 years of living in a Paris suburb is the people’s fascination with urban culture. Every spring our “commune” of Magny-les-Hameaux, just 20 kilometers southwest of Paris, offers sports workshops for children featuring French urban culture. (Scholarized children enjoy 2 weeks of school […]