Tag: Parenting
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Understanding what ‘fluency’ truly means for citizenship — why you don’t need to be perfect, how children learn languages naturally, and what levels are required for naturalization in Spain, Mexico, Serbia, and Brazil.
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I joined the Marine Corps in 2002. Not by accident, and not for lack of conviction. I joined because I believed in it — because the idea of standing for something larger than myself, of courage, of doing my part, felt obvious. I was eighteen, and the world was simple. The war cycle happened to…
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My son doesn’t know he’s lucky. He just knows that in Brazil, soccer meant running barefoot through neighborhood parks every evening, the whole community cheering from the sidelines. He knows Festa Junina means dancing in a straw hat while bonfires flicker and the air smells like sweet cake and smoke. And this weekend, like so…
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I still remember the moment each of us was handed our permanent residency cards in Panama. My spouse first, then me, then each of our children. Four cards. Four keys to a door that can never be locked. Standing in that office, it hit me: our kids will always have somewhere to go. No matter…
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A friend of mine has a daughter in high school who wasn’t connecting with her math teacher. Instead of accepting this limitation, she hired an english speaking Brazilian PhD engineer over Zoom—someone who genuinely loves math and charges what amounts to a modest fee in U.S. dollars. After a few months of personalized instruction, that…
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The world our children are growing up in isn’t the same one we knew. Power is shifting. Economies rise and fall. Cultures and opportunities are no longer centered in one place. We live in a multipolar world, where no single country defines the future. For parents, that means we can’t just think about where our…