As the school year winds down in the U.S. as well as internationally, many families who are preparing to relocate—either with joy or trepidation, or perhaps a little of both—have an additional level of angst to manage if they are moving with children. In the case of older children, who resent being torn away from their friends and their school and are afraid of not fitting in in a strange, new place, the relocation is often a very hard sell.
Many companies offer services such as cross-cultural training and career-finding assistance to spouses of assignees, but children are often the forgotten [...] Read More