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Raising Multicultural Children

January 26, 2011

Something expat and immigrant parents face, is raising their child in a culture that is different from their own.  I’ve been thinking a lot about how things will be different here for my children than they were for me and my siblings.  I don’t know what it is to be a child in Germany.  (I [...]

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Q&A: Learning German and Raising a Bilingual Child

April 25, 2010

Last week, I asked readers for questions.  I decided to split up the answers into several posts.  This one addresses language related questions. Maria Guzenko wrote: You’ve mentioned you are fluent in German. Do you still have much of an accent? Was much attention paid to pronunciation in your German class? Do you feel it’s [...]

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Announcing MamasWorldwide.com

August 4, 2008

I was actually not solely busy with Oliver the last few weeks, a lot of my time has been spent installing, designing and in general getting a new blog up and ready to go. Blythe, Maria, Tammy, Lynn and I are all coauthors on our new site, MamasWorldwide.com. The blog will focus on parenting topics [...]

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The Answers, part II: living in Germany, living in general, and kids

April 4, 2008

What is the best part about living in Germany? What is the hardest? The best part about living in Germany is probably the socialized medicine. You hear stories about illnesses making people bankrupt in the US, and I don’t have to worry at all about that here. If, God forbid, Oliver was autistic, or Rainer [...]

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One week old!

July 30, 2007

I will try to get around to writing up the birth this week. In the meantime, I uploaded my first video to YouTube, made of Oliver this morning: Here’s Oliver on Saturday: And this is us from yesterday: Oliver is a bit of a cranky guy. He’s been having problems with gas, so sometimes he [...]

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Long time no post

June 11, 2005

I have found that in my attempt to lower my stress levels by avoiding the news, I have little interesting to blog about. Maybe this will change at some point. Hopefully it will change at some point. My back and legs (sciatica pain from my back) have been hurting like crazy. I had the hardest [...]

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