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Adverse Outcomes to Early Middle Age Linked With Childhood Residential Mobility
Introduction: Links between childhood residential mobility and multiple adverse outcomes through to maturity, and effect modification of these associations by familial SES, are incompletely underst...
Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss
If you are going to buy only one book on grief, this is the one to get! It will validate your grief experience, and you can share it with your children. You can leave it on the coffee table so othe...
Outlawed Grief, a Curse Disguised
Living abroad is an amazing adventure, but it comes with some baggage. And sometimes, the baggage fees are hidden, catching you by surprise, costing more than you planned. You thought you had...
7 Ways to Teach Your TCKs to Process Grief
By Lauren Wells The topic of TCKs and grief is one that circulates often on online forums about TCKS, and there is a good reason for this: we know that TCKs deal with a significant amount of loss. ...
10 Ways Teachers Can Support Third Culture Kids
I was talking to the principal of an international school recently, and he had never heard the term “Third Culture Kid” (TCK). This really surprised me. By now, after more than three decades of res...
A Very Dangerous Place for a Child Is College
“Colleges should do this and colleges should do that, everyone says?” I walked across the front of the auditorium, stopped and faced the two hundred young men who had invited me to their fraternity...
Cross-cultural education: advice for parents
This post covers some key advice I give to parents about coping with the stresses associated with cross-cultural education. I hope you will find these suggestions thought-provoking, encouragin...
Children with Special Needs
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...
Helping Your Child Learn a New Language
Not everyone needs to learn a new language when they move to a new culture. But it certainly can help with feeling more at home.
By: World Family Education
Moving overseas with a child who has additional needs
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 ...
Expat Education: An Expat’s Guide to Choosing a School Overseas
'An Expat’s Guide to Choosing a School Overseas' is an absolute must-read if you’re moving overseas with children. Choosing the right school for your child is one of the hardest decisions you’ll ma...
Anxious Jaxon - A Brand New World: A coping tale for Covid-19
Anxious Jaxon wakes up excited to start his day but soon finds out that the world has changed from Covid19. Anxious Jaxon - A Brand New World, addresses the fears that young readers may have while ...