multicultural families Archives • The Elephant Mum

September 7, 2020

This might be my post with the biggest time lag between intention and actual execution. It’s not that I lacked motivation to write it, but ...

August 27, 2020

Moniku is a novel service for multicultural families and parents of small children living in Espoo, Finland. I interviewed Alba, one of the ...

July 26, 2020

A growing number of families try to live more sustainably. There is nothing more sustainable than growing your own food. Thanks to Syötävä ...

June 9, 2020

When I mention I live in Finland, people picture me equipped with a furry coat, scarf, and hat and enveloped in darkness all year round. While ...

June 1, 2020

I write this post as we complete our first year homeschooling R on Italian language. I am proud of her and us for sticking to it, and proud of ...

May 20, 2020

Sometime families need a little help coping with the challenges of life. There is no shame in that, in fact I am open to admit we used help in ...

May 5, 2020

If you think babies and toddlers are a handful, wait for the teen years. U is 12 now, technically still a preteen but shows signs of early ...

December 5, 2019

Today a fellow expat mom in Finland published a question on a closed Facebook group: how to build a support network to make an expat family ...

October 24, 2019

Recently fellow mom blogger Sarah Forestwood of Books and Beyond asked me to share why reading is important to our family. A book lover myself, I ...