by 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), […]
Language and Music: Paying It Forward
by There are many things I am grateful for to my mother and music and language exposure is definitely one of them. Although I did not grow up in a bilingual family myself and started with my first language at the age of 9, I always had an easy time picking up languages and mimicking […]
Choosing A School for Kids of Color: 5 Things To Consider
by Note: I wrote this post as a momma to two mixed race boys (white/African-American) and so you may notice this piece focuses largely on race, but I hope that some of questions and ideas shared will be relevant to parents of multicultural children too! Last spring our family moved to a new home. We didn’t […]
Back To School: Where’s My School Uniform?
by The summer holiday is once more nearly over and in a matter of weeks a new school year begins here in the Netherlands. It’s the time of year when I am starkly reminded that I am a British expat and my school days are very different to those of my three sons. At this […]