Articles
This eclectic selection of articles is useful to all generations. Keep popping back as new ones are regularly added.
BY HELEN ELLIS
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
- 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
- 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
