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Transition Resources

Here are some resources to help families with transitions to and from another country. These resources do not address the cross-cultural aspect of such moves as much as how to do the move successfully. There are five articles, and we offer each article in three different forms: the online version for reading online, the printer-friendly version for downloading and printing before reading, and the computer-friendly version to download and read on the computer. The computer-friendly version will also work on an ipad. There is a zipped file of the last two versions, including the bibliography and transitions game that you can download at the end of the page.

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Articles

Family Education Plan

Helping Children with Moves

Preparing Children for Life Overseas

Through Their Eyes Darkly

Transitions: A Lifelong Process

Recommended books/resources

Transitions Bibliography

Furloughing with Children

Family Activity

Transitions Game

Zipped files of complete resources

Transitions packet - zipped

Articles

Family Education Plan, by Sharon Haag

This article deals with planning ahead for your children's education, taking into account kinds of schooling and furloughs, so that your children are ready for life at the end. There is a chart to help with planning that is below and will need to be downloaded separately if needed.

• Online version: Family Education Plan
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• Computer-friendly version:

• The form for any version

Helping Children with Moves, by International CHED Staff

This article gives practical suggestions for how to prepare children before a move so that it can be done as successfully as possible.

• Online version: Helping Children with Moves
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• Computer-friendly version:

Preparing Children for Life Overseas

This article discusses how to prepare children for living in another country. It gives ideas of attitudes that are helpful in moving overseas with children.

• Online version: Preparing Children for Life Overseas
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• Computer-friendly version:

Through Their Eyes Darkly, by Paul Nelson

This article discusses the challenges of helping one's children maintain a realistic view of their passport country.

• Online version: Through Their Eyes Darkly
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Transitions: A Lifelong Process, by Lynda Shingledecker-Wheeler

This articles discusses the phases of transition and lists resources at the end.

• Online version: Transitions: A Lifelong Process
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• Computer-friendly version:

Bibliography

Transitions Bibliography Lynée Ward, 2012-04-12 Download "transition_biblio.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 74KB [304 downloads]

Furloughing with Children

Furloughing with Children is a brochure with suggestions that will help families prepare for the transition to their passport country and back in order to maximize the benefit of the 'home country' experience, especially for their children. Hard copies are available from the International CHED office for $1.00 US each plus shipping. You can download an electronic version, or you may request one from .

Furloughing with Children Lynée Ward, 2005-02-21 Download "Furlough_with_Children.pdf", Acrobat PDF document, 148KB [3062 downloads]

Transitions Game

This is a family communication game entitled Transition Is a Family Affair: Some Ideas for Prompting Discussion Around the Dinner Table. Activities are designed to help parents and children discuss in a nonthreatening manner feelings about changes and moving. There are three sections: Furlough, Moving, and Prefurlough.

Transitions Game 2012 Lynée Ward, 2012-04-12 Download "transition_game_2012.zip", ZIP archive, 1MB [229 downloads]

Transitions Packet

The zipped files below have everything from this page with the articles either being in the print-friendly version or the computer-friendly version.

This version can be downloaded and printed.

Complete transitions resources for printing Lynée Ward, 2012-04-16 Download "transition_packet_4print.zip", ZIP archive, 2MB [209 downloads]

This version can be downloaded and the articles and bibliography can be read easily on the computer. The game will still need to be printed to be very useful.

Complete transition resources - computer friendly Lynée Ward, 2012-04-16 Download "transitions_packet_ebook.zip", ZIP archive, 2MB [184 downloads]

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