App Talk Summer: Getting Creative
by Fiona Passantino
June 2014
Summer is the time to get creative and get our hands dirty. As we travel on long airplane rides, stay with Grandparents or at a beachside hotel, getting creative means keeping purple finger marks off the sofa. Creative tablet apps are great for long train or plane trips and are much kinder to the AirBNB host’s walls. Here are a few we like for kids in the 4+ category.
App Talk Spring: Learning about Science
by Fiona Passantino
March 2014
Spring is the time to examine bugs under a microscope, follow the flight paths of butterflies, dig for dinosaur bones and learn about the stars. This spring we take a look at science learning apps for tablet and phone.
Salvi & Maya discover the Netherlands - Book review
by Laila Borrie
Febuary 2014
Perfect for introducing international children to all things Dutch - 'Salvi & Maya discover the Netherlands' is a very interesting book written by Mariem Aameyri with beautiful illustrations by Luuk Barink. As its name suggests, this is a story about two children, who discover different places in the Netherlands and learn interesting facts about Dutch culture. This book is available in 3 languages : English, Dutch and Spanish
App Talk Winter: The Holiday Edition
by Fiona Passantino
December 2013
Amazingly, the holidays are upon us. And while our kids are in a state of sugar-anticipation-frenzy starting with the bag of candy from Halloween, through the Sint and straight to Christmas, we can at least calm them down a bit with a few cute apps to get us all through. It is, a lovely time of year and we should be stopping to smell (and drink!) the glühwein.
App Talk Autumn: Special Needs
by Fiona Passantino
10 September 2013
Summer is over and it’s time to gear up for a return to school for our little and not-so-little ones. This edition focuses on our visual learners and children with special needs. As a parent of an autistic child, this is a particularly personal issue to me, and these little folks need more support in their daily lives than others.
Anna's New Room - book review
By Sonia Nding
5 September 2013
This fiction book describes Anna’s new life, how she has to adjust to her new country, new house, new school and friends. Children may find it useful to help them adjust to life in a new country.
App Talk Summer
by Fiona Passantino
26 June 2013
Fiona Passantino reviews children's apps with a touch of mythology. Prep your children for the summer holiday with apps which are fun and educational.
App Talk
by Fiona Passantino
29 May 2013
Through this series, Fiona Passantino extols the virtues of apps for children in the learning potential that they offer and will review four kids' apps for under fives per quarter. She runs her own app development company and is based in The Hague with her husband and in-house app testers and debuggers, her children aged four and nine.
Expat Women: confessions - Book review
By Sonia Nding
1 April 2013
Read our review of this collection of questions and answers of expat issues from the the expatwomen website.
An Inconvenient Posting - Book Review
By Sonia Nding
6 March 2013
Read our review of an autobiographical memoir by an expat wife regarding her feelings of lost identity and unexpected depression upon moving country. Complete with tips of how to alleviate or diminish these feelings.
Expat Life Slice by Slice - Book review
By Roy Lie A Tjam
12 July 2012
I had the privilege of meeting Apple Gidley at the launching of this book at the Expat Archive Centre The Hague on 21 June 2012. In Slice by Slice she takes you with her on her fascinating journey of being an expat in Nigeria, Malaysia, Holland and even Trinidad & Tobago in the Caribbean.
Expat Teens Talk - Book review
By Rawia Liverpool
22 May 2012
As a mother of two expatriate teenagers, I was very curious about Expat Teens Talk. Dr. Lisa Pittman and Diana Smit, by writing this book, have filled a gap in the market.
5 Febuary 2014