about the highs and lows of childhood and how this can affect us as adults.

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Parenting third culture kids

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Parenting is hard enough at the best of times, and each developmental stage that our youngsters embark on stretch us a little further. Add into the mix the development of inter cultural, cross-cultural and international children, also called third culture kids and you find the challenges rise

Dealing with parental expectations

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At Christmas and during the summer many of us go home to our…

Children and native identity

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Native identity is often one of the hot potatoes that concern parents who are raising international children. What is cultural identity and what might be the new ground that our international youngsters might be capable breaking if we let them?

Scary things

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Listen   Scary Things Scary is liver, with spinach…

Where is home?

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Books read, hagelslag bought, cards, mostly written, and some even sent. I’ve been Home away from Home

Baby blues

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When love’s bright light is dimmed like sun obscured by clouds. Like tapestry worn thin, a whisper not a shout.

Held hostage for the sake of the children

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When international relationships end, one partner can end…

A day by the seaside

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Now as the heat waves over us, after weeks of cloud and rain. With happy faces, one by one, we climb aboard the train.

Empty nest

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Small tiny feet through the bedroom they pad Fear and fright drives you into our bed I hug you close You fall asleep You’re just on loan, not mine to keep