parents in finland Archives • The Elephant Mum

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 ...

April 20, 2020

Here we are, having practiced social distancing for 5 weeks and counting, crushed by the uncertainty of when this will be over and how will the ...

March 23, 2020

A friend texted me “it won’t be the coronavirus killing me, it’s gonna be this homeschooling bit!”. After 10 days in ...

March 18, 2020

I know coronavirus is all we talk about lately and everyone’s saturated, but the uncomfortable reality is that this will be part of ...

February 9, 2020

Today I want to share about Mareena, an entrepreneur in Finland, and her business Nordic Nannies. I think her services will speak to many of my ...

February 4, 2020

In recent years, concerning statistics have highlighted health and weight issues plaguing children and families in Finland. The number of ...

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 ...

August 7, 2019

Who’s ready for a rant? Today news came out that international adoptions dropped to a historical low in Finland. When I read that, I was ...

August 4, 2019

Since I moved to Finland nine years ago, the question I definitely heard the most was: “Why did you move to Finland from Italy?!”. ...

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