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 […]
(this post was updated in April 2020) We can find many studies about how to raise “a” or “one” bilingual child, but what happens when you have more than one child? And maybe twins? Will it be possible to keep the initial bilingual or multilingual situation within the […]
If you have more than one child and/or twins, you probably are concerned that you’re not giving them enough individual attention. When your children are attending school, going to after school activities etc., they barely have time for family activities and sometimes no one-on-one time to interact with […]
Have you ever noticed that there are many articles and posts about „Things not to say“ to all kind of people: cops, girls, men, (ex-) girlfriends, (ex-) boyfriends, friends with children, childless friends, pregnant women, to a dj, to a PhD student, at a job interview etc. ? […]
There are so many advices about keeping twins in the same class at school or not, which appear to lead to a simple single decision. But sometimes your have to change your decision for the childrens’ sake. Sometimes you’re firmly convinced of doing the right thing but later […]
I wanted to post something else today, but this picture hit me straight into my heart while I was reading the newspapers online these days. This picture shows four 6 year old chinese twins at their school in Shenzen (South China). Their parents did shave their heads and […]
Also known as idioglossia, autonomous language or cryptophasia, the phenomenon of the secret language among twins, twin language, twin talk has fascinated both parents and researchers. It is a spoken language – sometimes also a language of gestures and body language – that twins adopt to communicate among […]
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Expat Since Birth – A Life spent "abroad" 