In this touching article, Mociexpat shares her feelings for the death of her father, which occurred when she was on holiday in Italy. Universal feelings when losing a parent from far away. Since I was a little girl, I remember...
Claudiaexpat introduces us to a useful guide for parents aging far away. We have already had the pleasure of hosting Ana McGinley on Expatclic, with an article on ageing parents who live far away. Undoubtedly the issue of parents ageing...
This is a summary of the meeting of our Online Support Group, which took place on 21st May. The topic was ‘How to deal with ageing parents far away”. Friends from Switzerland, Sweden, Italy, England, Indonesia, Cape Town and Jerusalem took...
We thank Ana McGinley for this precious article. Ana was a social worker for 15 years, specializing in the care of the elderly. She is based in the Netherlands, about 15,000 kms from her own parents. She is currently writing a book...
We thank Sue Mannering, who allows us to publish her article, Absence makes the heart ache longer, which summarises the content of “Forgotten Relatives”, a seminar Sue attended at the Families in Global Transistion conference earlier this year, and which was previously...
We thank Olga of https://www.europeanmama.com/ for this article, where she explains so clearly how a holiday for an expat family can get…just a bit complicated! Two years ago, our Christmas trip looked as follows. First, we took a train from...
Guia is Italian and she currently lives in Jerusalem. We thank her for this very interesting article that makes us reflect on stimulating issues as far as the relation with our family of origin is concerned. Thank you, Guia ! Children,...
Mariangela Balsamà, James’ mother – lives and writes from their Lancashire’s home about the importance of being “nonni”. Thank you Mariangela! I call it ‘emotional weaning’, the time my son can spend surrounded by love, and from it the idea of making...
Aleexpat tells us about her feeling towards her “technologic” mum… When my mom called me one day saying that she intended to buy a computer, as her friend did, because then she could see me in “SCAIP”, I got a...
Quotes and references are taken from the topic “When the distance becomes a burden”, Psychology section in the Italian forums of Expatclic. I draw on this subject to talk about how severe moments of life, such as illness and death...
