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Articles

​This eclectic selection of articles is useful to all generations. Keep popping back as new ones are regularly added.
BY HELEN ELLIS
  • Family holiday resorts are a boon for intergenerational Distance Families
  • 7 tips to include your family living abroad
  • Distance Grandparenting and Ambiguous Loss
  • Hats off to NZ Distance Grandparents - The Voice of Knowing
  • Seven Rich Encounter Communication Strategies for Distance Families
  • ​How to Outsmart Mother's Day and Father's Day
  • Sharing the worlds of Distance Family... and Thanksgiving
  • The Distance Family Thinking Pie - how big is your slice?
  • ​Distance Grandparent/Grandchild Relationships: a Slow-Cooker Metaphor
  • Distance Family Envy or Jealousy?
  • The guilt of living abroad
  • My grandkids went to the Kids Club and I played golf
  • Airbnbs versus Hotels
  • Distance Families: A line in the sand
GENERAL
  •  How to drive an expat crazy: 10 ways to irritate someone who has lived abroad.
  • The difference between self-compassion and self-pity
  • A Shift in American Family Values is Fueling Estrangement
  • ​How to be a better aunt or uncle
  • Grieving you pre-pandemic life
  • How Living Abroad Helps You Develop a Clearer Sense of Self
  • What if My Family Doesn't Feel Like Family?
  • How to turn a makeshift room into a place your guests will actually want to sleep in
  • Here's what you need to know when a loved one dies
  • Talking to Children About Cancer
  • 11 Fun and Useful Apps for Expat Families
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​DISTANCE PARENTS/GRANDPARENTS
  • Long Distance Grandparenting 
  • Loneliness - Long Distance Granny
  • The pleasure and pain in raising an independent daughter
  • ​Are your affairs in order before your travel?
  • Top tips for staying in touch across the globe
  • ​Dear Mary-anne: My son-in-law drank all our booze
  • "I'm not breaking my kids" and other things expats would like to say
  • ​Why the world now has more grandparents than grandchildren
  • Becoming a grandparent during the coronavirus pandemic
  • Lessons From a Long-Distance Grandfather
  • Difficult daughter-in-law? How do you build a positive relationship with her?
  • Our son and grandson are in New Zealand and we are in tears over not being able to be with them
  • Top 10 tips for long distance grandparenting
  • Over The River & Through The Woods: Long Distance Grandparenting
  • Pandemic Grandparenting, Beyond the Dreary Video Calls
  • How to Grandpa and Grandma in 20 languages
  • Hope for Estranged Grandparents
  • The Year Grandparents Lost
  • Resources on Grandparent Estrangement & Alienation
  • Yes learn that technology
  • When Grandparents Want a Say in Naming their Grandchildren
  • Dear Therapist: My Daughter Doesn't Care That I Want Her to Live Closer to Home
  • A Grandmother's Love and Limits: a Letter to my Mom
  • Grandmothers may be more connected to grandchildren than to own offspring
  • 25 Great things to say to your grandkids
  • Grandparenting through Parental Breakups
  • Why should you stop trying with your estranged adult child?
  • Collection of articles regarding estrangement
  • Grandparenting - a Pathway for Self-Discovery

​DISTANCE SONS AND DAUGHTERS
  • How living abroad helps you develop a clearer sense of self
  • When your last goodbye was your last goodbye: Processing death and life abroad.
  • Why you should plan a trip with your Mother every year
  • Far from Home, Stuck in a Limbo
  • When Grandchildren are estranged from their Grandchildren
  • What to say to your parents when they are dying
  • With borders closed, our lifelines to family overseas have been cut. The isolation is suffocating​​
  • Life will never be the same for people over 60 — even with a COVID-19 vaccine
  • The Many Faces of Pandemic Grief​​
  • The Shift from Helicopter Parents to Helicopter Caregivers​​
  • How to Outsmart Mother's Day and Father's Day
  • How to tackle tough times when you're missing "home"
  • ​3 Ways to Stop Toxic Positivity from Tainting your Expat Life
  • Furious at your parents for aging? You're not alone
  • The evolution of global mobility
  • Dear Therapist: My Daughter Doesn't Care That I Want Her to Live Closer to Home
  • A Grandmother's Love and Limits: A Letter to my Mom
  • Why Gratitude is the Best Answer for Difficult Expat Emotions
  • Reverse culture shock: Why returning home can be hard
  • A well-being guide to returning home​​
  • How a decade as an expat destroyed my Australian dream
  • A Practical Guide for travelling with Babies and Children
  • How to know when it's time to walk away from a sibling​

DISTANCE GRANDCHILDREN

  • How do multilingual children become adults?
  • Whom am I? A weird culture kid
  • I am a Malaysian who grew up abroad. Call me a Third Culture Kid.
  • Generational Differences 
  • Repatriating kids need networks too!
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