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Moving to France with Your Children Summary:By Angie Power
Preface Moving to France with your children is a collection of reflections and helpful advice based on my own experiences as both an English parent and a teacher living in a small French town. The book attempts to enlighten newly arrived - and established - families on unfamiliar but fascinating matters which need to be considered by parents wishing their children to be comfortable and to succeed in their new environment. Above all, it aims to be reassuring and inspirational to families who want to enhance their children's integration into French life. The chapters cover various aspects of French culture and school life and have been grouped together into three sections. The first section - An adjustment for the whole family - looks at how parents themselves need to feel at ease in their new surroundings: on the one hand communicating in French at work and with friends and neighbours, whilst on the other hand maintaining their children's English language and culture at home. The second section - Education and learning - helps parents find their way around their children's new school system so that they may make the most of the opportunities available. The third and final section - The Appeal of the French lifestyle for young and old alike - reveals traditions, past-times and festivities an occasional tourist might miss, reminding us of why we moved to France in the first place! Moving to France with your children took as long to write as it took my children to complete their schooling here. I can clearly remember the conversation - about ten years ago, when my sons were both at primary school - and an English visitor first expressed the idea that there were probably other parents who might want to share my observations. He had been listening to a typical school day of ours; of how one son had had to stand on the teacher's platform in the morning and recite all the rivers in France to the whole class and how my other son had to learn the national anthem by heart for the next day. Neither boy had been punished: this was everyday school work and typical of the tough, rigorous school system for which many English families are unprepared. True, our conversation verged on the humorous because I explained how I had forgotten the tune of La Marseillaise and we had had to ask our 80-year-old neighbour whose out-of-tune rendition of it was simply unforgettable. Nevertheless, the Englishman was so serious about my writing that he suggested a list of newspaper editors to whom I might write. So it is - many published articles later and with yet more to share - that a book for other parents moving to France with their children has finally come about. Angie Power Please select one mirror to download
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