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Advice to Parents of New Boarders

No nonsense advice from parents (posted in the Middle East) who sent three children back home to board...two were "Enid Blyton" perfect fits (although one was a boy) but the third was a square peg and expected by the school to "stand up to the bullies"...

So You're Going to Boarding School: Memoirs of a Graduate

What students should expect from boarding school, and how to prepare....by someone who graduated about a minute ago and wrote this for her school paper, called "Hey You".

Take the Children or Leave Them at Home?

If you take your children abroad with you, will you ruin their futures, or enrich them beyond their wildest imaginations? A cross-cultural snapshot of things your children will deal with if they join in this nomadic life with you.

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