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...passport and the place he or she considers home: "Your passport tells you what country you are allowed to reside in. Your heart tells you what is home. Sometimes parents don't realize the depth of connection their children feel to the country they are living in." Dale Ford, head counselor at the Singapore American School, observes, "No student ever wants to leave where they are. It doesn't matter if they're moving from Singapore to Tokyo or from Las Vegas to Peoria. There is almost always a row within the family...
...honest with your kids. Based on his 15 years of professional experience overseas, Ford says the children who have the hardest time adjusting are those whose parents have made false promises about the possibility of moving back to their last posting. Kids won't bother to fit in "back home," he explains, if they think there is a chance they might leave again...
...Kids can sulk for a week or two" after moving, says Ford. But before too long, "most kids will be fine"?especially once they've made new friends. The solution is to accept that your children are not cultural facsimiles of you or your partner but part of a privileged group growing up without frontiers...
John T. Dunlop, a preeminent labor economist who served as U.S. secretary of Labor under President Gerald Ford and as dean of the Faculty from 1969-73, died last Thursday morning...
Dunlop served as secretary of labor under Gerald Ford from March 1975 to January 1976, resigning when Ford did not sign a bill which would have enabled unions to picket construction sites more easily...