by What is it like to move to another country and move a child in a foreign culture? I recently asked the Buzzfeed community and also forested via a few Reddit -Threads (here, here). Although there were both good and bad experiences, the results were surprisingly in favor of education abroad! This is what they had to say.
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1.“We recently moved from the US to Italy for the army, and children can be children! We have a 2-year-old, so many tantrums, of course, but we usually get compassionate smiles from others in the restaurant, or the servers bring us Candy/coloring books.
2.“Irish parents are much less stressed about safety. Not that they are not good parents – they are, but they are more relaxed about many things such as neighborhood children who play without supervision. I really noticed the difference as some (mostly Irish) Parents and I waited for the children to work out and screams.
3.“Well, I have certainly noticed that white families in the UK do not touch their children. And when someone who is really against violence, I don’t see this as a bad thing. In my community (Northwest -Russia), we are pretty afraid of Parents or grandparents and their wooden spoon or belt!
4.“I live in Spain and children are pretty coded. I remember that my niece had cut her food around the age of 10. And recently I spoke with parents who said they would not allow their 12-year-olds to go Only to school through public transport (our children are now all 5 and 6).
5.“I am from the US, but now in Austria. The neighborhood children here are practical game (in the best way). We have a gate in the back garden that goes into the forest, and our children will run around with all other neighborhood children there to the Kerkbel sounds at 7 p.m., we are sometimes invaded for ‘jusule’ [snacks]But the neighbors also feed our children, so it’s all good. The children all walk together/bring the tram to school together from the first year. “
6.“Where I am now am-zuid-America children become very coddled and are not expected not to be independent at all until they are a lot older. I work with 5-year-olds, and they all have nanny girls who literally do everything for them, including spoon that Feeding them.
7.“How independent the children are. We moved from the UK to Austria and there was a huge difference in how children are treated. In many places in the UK, it is very unusual to enable children of primary age to enable public transport To take yourself, but here it is still very normal.
8.“I lived in Italy, and now I am in Albania. If a restaurant even has a children’s menu, they are just smaller portions of adult meals. You don’t see chicken nuggets on a seafood place. Children go everywhere and go everywhere, and they are usually good Well worn, even if there are no adults in the neighborhood.
“There is also a ‘Let children his children’ mentality. Nobody expects children not to play. I think I have seen parents in recent years perhaps discipline twice and when you are behavior. I assume there At some point discipline must be done, but I think it is usually done in private. “
–Wise_possession
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9.“We moved from Germany to the Philippines (Husband is Filipijns) with our now 16 months old. Educating our baby is so much cheaper here, and you need far fewer things. In Germany you need a nice cradle, a change Table, a pram, a baby bath tub and much more we need none of these things. Tabo. You just change the babies on the floor or one parent keeps them up while the other changes the diaper. “
10.“My son was older when we moved to southern Spain, and the big difference is how many children live with their parents in their mid-20s. Part of it is due to unemployment, but part of it is cultural. To be clear , I think it is stronger to keep the family connection stronger, and the US waving the overcodulation of the youth to ‘all too fast.
“There is also not the same pushback against freedom of free range here in Spain as in the US. Young people know how to use public transport and take themselves to school/activities without parents driving them everywhere, what is expected in America. The local neighbors watch them, just like the larger ‘village’.
–Super monster
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11.“In Japan, children need a lot of ‘equipment’ for school. A special backpack AndoseruA special artificial kit, a siren (aka, Melodicaaka melodion), a lunch, a small towel, a small package of tissues for the day and shoes that you only wear in the school. The children are generally pretty well disciplined and you don’t see too much unmanageable behavior or chaos. Restaurant behavior looks free to me. “
12.“I have my little boy home schoold because we lived in a very conservative school district in Kentucky. I didn’t want him to confused science and religion, and I wanted to make sure he sees LGBTIA+ people as people who earn all civil rights. We have moved to Brandenburg In Berlin, Germany.
13.‘Vs to Mexico. I just see so many small children in themselves. Walking to school. Play in the park. Go to the local stores to pick up small groceries. Many parents do not use child restrictions in vehicles. It is not unusual to see a baby on a motorcycle. “
—Anonym, 58 years old, Guanajuato, Mexico
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14.“We moved to NZ when my child was almost 6. This meant that instead of returning to kindergarten, which he had just spent a month in the US, he immediately went to the year. This was in October. The school year Walks next to the calendar year, so he was at the end of January the next year two to read this book, you help your classmate next to you. ” The only thing he had some problems was the emphasis here.
15.“Prague has phenomenal American international and British schools. I have had many friends whose children went to both, and when they returned to the United States, they were head and shoulder in front of US classmates.”
16.“Every American expationer with whom I have spoken has stated that they never realized how pleasant it is to know that your child will not be in a shooting at school. That seems to be a biggie for them.”
17.“We moved to Spain last year when my child was 7 and because of Covid had been before kindergarten. I will say that they don’t seem super proactive about learning disorders. I believe he has ADHD (like me), but she doesn’t seem like it Really a lot of evaluation for it.
18.“We moved to Austria when our children were 5 and 7. Zero regrets them. They go to the local schools and love them. We love that they have no shooting exercises at school or shootings at school. We feel that Austria is -friendly too. “
Have you ever moved abroad with your children? Tell us all about it in the comments below.
