Why Your Child Fell Apart in Week Three of School — Transition Fatigue in Expat Kids, with Kate Berger
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Your child went back to school and seemed fine. Then week two happened.
For internationally mobile children, September isn't just a new school year. It's a re-entry. They've come back from a summer in a country that might feel more like home than this one, said goodbye to grandparents again, and walked into a classroom where they have to switch languages at the door. The tiredness doesn't show up on day one. It shows up when the adrenaline runs out.
Kate Berger is a child psychologist and the founder of…
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