When the time comes for your family to move back to your passport country, you can bet it’s going to be a big transition for everyone. Aside from all the packing and logistics of leaving your host country home, you’ll also need to be prepared for the emotional side of things for your kids. What are some of the things you can expect from your kids as your family repatriates? By: Emily Jackson

I don’t know about you, but I find it very hard to believe that Elf has been around since 2003. It quickly became one of the Christmas movie classics — right up there with Home Alone, The Santa Claus, and It’s a Wonderful Life. I know I don’t need to convince you to watch that movie (as if you haven’t watched it more than a few times this month alone). But, like any movie that’s watched over and over again because it never gets old, I began to pick up on details I didn’t notice the first two do...

Dear Graduating Senior, This spring I hugged you. I cried with you. I said goodbye to you. And then I looked into the faces of your parents as they said goodbye too. How can I express the depth of …

The story addresses a couple of important issues that children face. The desire to fit in is important, but it is more important that children learn to embrace who they are and be themselves.  By: David Shannon

The classic story about searching for somewhere to belong, from four-time Caldecott honor winner Leo Lionni.Elephants are gray. Pigs are pink. Only the chameleon has no color of his own. He is purple like the heather, yellow like a lemon, even black and orange striped like a tiger! Then one day a chameleon has an idea to remain one color forever by staying on the greenest leaf he can find. But in the autumn, the leaf changes from green to yellow to red . . . and so does the chameleon. When anot...