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Moving overseas with a child who has additional needs
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Moving abroad with a child with additional needs. The range of extra needs is enormous. I hope that some of these general suggestions prove helpful.

by Carole Hallett Mobbs , Expat ...

Lessons Learnt Journal
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Lessons Learnt Journal promotes creative ways to work, rest and play with children, supporting parents as they grow in their life with kids.

By: Pauline Soo

Helping kids who procrastinate on school work
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

What’s really behind all the dilly-dallying and delaying? Is procrastination simply laziness or lack of self-discipline?

By: Catherine Wilson

Children with Special Needs
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Families raising a child with special needs while living internationally face an incredible challenge. Not only are they navigating another culture, and all of the transitions and adjustments assoc...

I Feel - I Need: Building Emotional Vocabulary
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

I feel-I need :  This sheet (a PDF) provides a way to have a simple check in with yourself,  and can also be shared with another person or a group/family.  It can help you put a...

10 keys to your kids’ emotional health
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

We are living in a season of unprecedented new relational dynamics, and increased emotional demands. Families are feeling this exponentially as energy levels, ideas, and margin are stretched thin. ...

60 Ways to Keep Kids Engaged at Home During the Coronavirus Shutdown
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

A Mighty Girl's top tips for parents on keeping kids engaged at home while observing social distancing.

By: A Mighty Girl Staff

Safeguarding kids from sexual abuse
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Teach kids of all ages - from under five to 15 - the skills they need when you're not around.

Author: Catherine Wilson

Source: Focus on the Family

EIGHT CRUCIAL STEPS: Preventing and Recognizing MK Abuse
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Nearly two years ago, I wrote an article titled "Speak It" that garnered significant attention. This is a follow-up post providing parents with concrete steps for preventing, recognizing and respon...

Telling My Story: Sexual Abuse on the Mission Field
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Today’s post has been submitted anonymously as a follow up to a piece published here, at A Life Overseas, in 2013. Today we hear from the daughter of ‘Jessica’ that wrote that article in 2013. &nbs...

How Porn Use Becomes an Addiction (Simplified!)
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Internet porn—used regularly and often—chemically and structurally changes the brain. These brain changes are consistent with the brain changes that occur in other types of addiction, like addictio...

Mom's Boundaries Saved My Life
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

Vechi Mutum, National Outreach Coordinator for Tree House Recovery, describes how addiction took his life down to a very dark place, leaving him homeless and broken. He thought he could still call ...