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Parenting in the Netherlands as an international family can feel overwhelming — but you don’t have to do it alone.DAM Parenting is a weekly podcast supporting international parents through pregnancy, birth, and parenthood in the Dutch system.
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The Dutch School Year, Month by Month — A Chat With Liam (opens the original)
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Schools back in session and nobody's ready. The alarms are back, the shoes are missing, and somewhere in your inbox is a school calendar you haven't properly looked at yet. So Eva sat down with Liam — also known as Dad Do Art, self-declared Vulnerable Dad number Two — got the calendar out, and went through the whole Dutch school year. Month by month. Not a masterclass. Two parents, two coffees, and nine months of what's actually coming. What's in it: studiedagen and why you mark every single one
Why Your Child Fell Apart in Week Three of School — Transition Fatigue in Expat Kids, with Kate Berger (opens the original)
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📬 Get the monthly email: damparenting.nl — everything from the podcast, in four minutes. 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.
Mismatched Libido: One Wants Sex To Feel Close, One Needs To Feel Close First | DAMSex (opens the original)
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One of you reaches for sex to feel close. The other needs to feel close before sex is even on the table. Nobody is wrong, nobody is broken, and most couples never say a word of it out loud. In Episode 5 of the DAM Sex series, sex and intimacy counsellor Debby Poort joins DAM to unpack what happens when two people in the same relationship have completely different starting points for desire — and why so much of the disconnection around sex turns out not to be about sex at all. What we get into: W
Language Loss vs Reduced Activation: Returning to School in the Netherlands After Summer (opens the original)
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The school bag is back out. The new lunch box is ready. And somewhere between the airport and the front door, your child tried to say something in Dutch — and it didn't come as easily as it did before you left. Does that mean something has gone wrong? Did six weeks speaking your home language undo years of work? In this episode of Dam Parenting, Eva sits down with multilingualism specialist Mimi - from Growing Up Multilingual — back for another episode of their ongoing multilingualism series — t
7 Types of Trauma That Show Up When Living Abroad — With Trauma Therapist Adina Petre (opens the original)
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You moved here. You built a life. And somewhere along the way, you started carrying something you couldn't quite name. In this episode, clinical psychologist and trauma therapist Adina Petre joins us to break down 7 types of trauma that show up specifically in expat and international family life — the ones that don't look like trauma from the outside, but quietly shape everything. We cover: relocation grief, cultural identity loss, generational trauma, birth trauma in a foreign healthcare system
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