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TAX RELIEF THAT MAKES SENSE

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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LEARNING THE LANGUAGE

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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LEARNING FROM OUR KIDS

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 CAMPS AND BABYSITTERS

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

 























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