The Swiss Bundesrat is voting in favour of
giving working families tax relieves for sending their kids to Kinderkrippe.
The conservative and right wing party
SVP is outraged, but the Bundesrat’s majority has set the pace: They
will make sure that the reform is set out in life already in 2010!
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Integration starts by speaking the language of
the country in which you live. And as parents, this is what we want for our children.
In playgroup, day-care or school, we ask them to speak Swiss German, French
or Italian. We know how important it is for them to make friends, not to
feel overwhelmed, to be part of the society. And as parents, what examples
are we showing them? Do we live in an expat ghetto?
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CAESAREAN
SECTION IN CHILD BIRTH
In Switzerland 3 women out of 10 had a c-section
in 2008. Those figures are even higher in private clinics (4-5 women out
of ten).
In the United States of America the rate of child
deliveries done by c-section has reached 30% compared to about 20% in the
United Kingdom. In most developed countries the rate is increasing.
WHO
is recommending that the percentage of c-sections ought to be about 15 %
of all child deliveries.
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Do
you speak - sprechen Sie
- parlez-vous ...?
HSBC Bank’s annual Expat Explorer Survey shows that
expats living in Europe are most likely to learn the local language.
75 % of expats living in Germany learn the local language, followed by 70
%
of expats in Spain and Belgium.
Expats originating from the Americas were
most likely to learn a new language.
The Desperate Expatwife eavesdropped to a phone conversation
the other day and heard at least five languages mixed into one.
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Moving abroad is always traumatic to a certain extent.
It involves uprooting, leaving the familiar behind, often leaving family
and friends for a future in new surroundings, perhaps in a country with
a different cultural background and a different day-to-day language.
Such a move is challenge enough for an adult, but it's interesting
to see how kids deal with moving abroad.
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Summer in Switzerland can be long for children of
working parents. Luckily there are many fun summer camps to choose from
and some of the best ones are gathered here:
SUMMER CAMPS
09 SWITZERLAND
Surprise your partner with an evening without kids.
Find a trustworthy babysitter here:
BABYSITTERS