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Expat Since Birth – A Life spent "abroad"

a blog by a multilingual lifelong expat/international, linguist, researcher, speaker, mother of three, living in the Netherlands and writing about raising children with multiple languages, multiculturalism, parenting abroad, international life…

Staying home with teens in times of COVID19 #5 Adjust your pace!…

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on April 23, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Staying home with teens in times of COVID19 #4 Celebrating Easter in 2020

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on April 11, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Staying home with teens in times of COVID19 #3 To plan or not to plan, that’s the question

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on April 9, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )

Staying home with teens in times of COVID19 #2 Breakfast and dinner conversations

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on April 8, 2020 • ( 1 Comment )

Staying home with teens in times of COVID19 #1 Remote learning

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on April 7, 2020 • ( 2 Comments )

When using words in another language (sensible and sensitive)

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on February 12, 2020 • ( 4 Comments )

5 tips to spending one-on-one time with your child(ren)

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on November 1, 2012 • ( 11 Comments )

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 […]

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on October 28, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

This is a great list of resources about learning dutch!

5 tips to reduce screen time for children

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on October 28, 2012 • ( 17 Comments )

Lately I wrote a post about indoor activities with children, and I think it’s useful to add some tips about how to reduce screen time for children. Usually, during holidays and the cold winter period, children get very tempted by TV, computer games etc. There are many ways […]

5 tips to learn a new language for expats

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on October 25, 2012 • ( 38 Comments )

I recently got involved in discussions about different methods to learn a new language for adults. Most of my friends find that to learn a new language, you have to take language classes. But they often don’t really feel comfortable to talk the language in public. I’m a […]

In Defense of the Bilingual Child

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on October 24, 2012 • ( 9 Comments )

This is a brilliant post from Eowyn Crisfield about “what to say” if you have a bilingual child. Related articles The Psycholinguistics of Bilingualism (psychologytoday.com) About OPOL (expatsincebirth.com)

10 indoor activities for children

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on October 13, 2012 • ( 14 Comments )

Now that the days are getting shorter in the northern hemisphere and the weather is less appealing for outdoor activities, it’s very tempting to give in to children’s TV or computer requests. I don’t want to make a statement about childhood and „screen time“ in this post, I […]

The importance of reading for multilingual children

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on October 8, 2012 • ( 9 Comments )

I just read Eowyn Crisfield’s post “The Importance of Monolingual Situations for Bilinguals“ about how to get children use the minority language. The most effective way is to build a social environment that shares the language(s). But this is not always possible. Maybe you’ll find families who share […]

More „Things to say to“…

By Ute Limacher-Riebold on October 5, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

A few days ago I published a post about „5 Things to say to a twin mum“ and was amazed on how many feedbacks I received. I would like to thank all those who took the time to read the post and to leave a reply. I also […]

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    The other day I was reminded by a friend that “non è mai troppo tardi” to learn another language. It is never too late. It made me think about how my late mother fostered her Italian skills when she moved to Italy. She moved to Italy in 1960 […]
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    Easter is over, some children are back to remote learning and some schools have adapted the amount of time students are required to learn online (or offline). They adjusted the pace of holding lessons online and if you ask me, it was so necessary to do so! Following […]

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