Yes, today is my blogs’ first anniversary! It’s been exactly a year since I published my first post and I have to say that I really enjoyed writing every single post. I’ve started blogging one year ago because I had written about many topics just “for me” and […]
In a huffingtonpost article you can find a video (see here below) about how parents discipline their children across the cultures that made me decide to write this post. We all know that every culture has her own method to “discipline” the children and has different norms. (Personally, I […]
I always wanted to become a medical doctor and was always aware of the fact that there are some basic skills everyone should know and I did renew my First Aid skills regularly. Especially since I’m a mother. We all know that it’s important to know First Aid […]
When Giselle Shardlow from Kidsyogastories announced that her August’s MKB Carnival would be about the topic “Happiness Around the World” I thought that considered from the point of view of a child or an adult, happiness means different things. There exist so many studies about happiness, what it […]
If you are going to spend your summer holidays in the The Hague area and are looking for some activities for your kids, here is a list with what you can do. Vakantiepas You can try to get a vakantiepas for your children. It is a booklet which contains […]
Summer holidays are getting closer, some of you are already on vacation, and for mothers (and fathers) this is a great challenge. How to survive these long weeks and get some holiday feeling despite the daily chores? In her latest post “Responsibility should not be a chore“, Nicole […]
I didn’t write a lot on this blog lately. First of all, because I realized that I did spend way too much time on the computer. I’m seriously working on my time management and am cutting the time down at the computer for many reasons. Reading and writing […]
A while ago I published a post about how to make our children listen to us. I just read an interesting article on iamexpat.nl “It is all about resiliency: Communication” by Mary Jane Roy, about how conflicts are caused by ineffective communication. This ineffective communication “leads to stress, usually […]
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Expat Since Birth – A Life spent "abroad" 