10 Tips for your boarding school life
You arrived at your boarding school a few days or weeks ago. How can you get used to this new lifestyle? Here are 10 tips (and one bonus...
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Andrea Schmitt
- Aug 9
- 3 min
15 Tips before heading off to college or university
Heading off to college is an exciting and potentially challenging time for your daughter. Here are some useful tips to help her settle in...
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Andrea Schmitt
- Jul 4
- 2 min
What loss? What grief? While your kids are living a privileged life abroad? Please….
Or “The hidden struggles of Cross Culture Kids and Third Culture Kids” Loss and grief are universal human experiences that can affect...
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Andrea Schmitt
- Jun 2
- 2 min
Summer-Bucket-List 2023 or design your summer 2023
Your teen’s Summer-Bucket-List 2023 Is your teen about to finish school? Are they eager on the one hand, but a bit nervous on the other...
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Andrea Schmitt
- Apr 1
- 4 min
10 gift ideas for Mother's Day
Need a gift for mom? Here are some suggestions... (if you are the mom, just pass this on to your husband, the kids, or both...) No or...
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Andrea Schmitt
- Mar 27
- 3 min
Will your teenage daughter soon change schools, country, or go off to university or college?
Then she will face a transition that will include loss. Loss of the life she knew until then, loss of friends, school, culture, food...
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Andrea Schmitt
- Feb 15
- 4 min
Collecting Friendships (making friends abroad, one friend at a time…)
Yesterday was Valentine’s Day. As I don’t support this huge money-making “Valentine's Industry” and the social pressure that comes with...
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Andrea Schmitt
- Dec 31, 2022
- 1 min
Where has this year gone?
Indeed, where? It feels like it has just passed without you much noticing, or so it seems. There have been good moments and difficult...
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Andrea Schmitt
- Dec 19, 2022
- 4 min
10 Last Minute Gift Ideas for your MOM
Still missing this one gift for mom (mum)? Here are some suggestions... No or little cost 1. The best and most thoughtful gift I...
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Andrea Schmitt
- Dec 16, 2022
- 3 min
10 Last-Minute Christmas Gift Ideas for Teenage Girls (living abroad or not)
1. If you have a teenage girl who has a hard time getting out of bed, especially in the winter months, then this wake-up lamp might...
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Andrea Schmitt
- Nov 3, 2022
- 2 min
Your heart is racing, your hands are sweating, and you feel dizzy. (Is it anxiety? Is it stress?)
“Is it stress? Is it anxiety? Or even a panic attack?” There is a lot of confusion about which is which, and people love mixing them up…...
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Andrea Schmitt
- Sep 6, 2022
- 4 min
Three Steps for: New School (class) - New Friends
“Have fun at school, I am sure you will make lots of friends…!” That’s what you as a mom said when your teen left for school or college...
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Andrea Schmitt
- Oct 1, 2021
- 3 min
Is your child a “parachute kid”?
You dropped your child off at a boarding school, college or university and went back to your home. Or, maybe your child flew there by...
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