The last time I used a headline like that (leaving out the international part) I heard there were a lot of whispers and confusion. So let’s just get this right out there: No, I am not pregnant. And no, we are not adopting. Well not exactly…<\/p>\n
Our family is preparing to welcome a German teenager into our home for the coming school year and we are all looking forward to the adventure.<\/p>\n
Last school year we hosted a Danish daughter whose dad had been friends with my husband since high school.<\/p>\n
As Emma was preparing to end her American year, a friend of ours asked if we would consider hosting her niece who lives in Germany. So, here we go again!<\/p>\n
Our oldest child is about to be nine and attends a fairly small private school affiliated with a church. Our new daughter (like Emma was) is a teenager who will attend a high school that hosts about 4,000 students… this is a big jump for her from her home in Germany and for us from younger kids to big kid and tiny school to massive one!<\/p>\n
The last time I think I did an okay job as a mom of a teen.<\/p>\n
This time I’d like to do better. And so I’m seeking your advice in a series of posts.<\/p>\n
I’m about to write a letter to our new daughter, introducing our family and sharing what life is like in our family.<\/p>\n
And so I am procrastinating a bit.<\/span><\/p>\n And so today I am seeking input from moms of teens, moms of grown children who once were teens, and other foreign exchange student moms:<\/p>\n If you could write a letter of introduction to your teen, what would you be sure to cover?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And what else do you think I might need to know to help make her transition better and my transition in to the teen years the best it can be?<\/p>\n Please do share… and share this post with your friends who might be able to share. There is no such thing as too much good advice! And I am ready for as much as you are willing to give!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The last time I used a headline like that (leaving out the international part) I heard there were a lot of whispers and confusion. So let’s just get this right out there: No, I am not pregnant. And no, we are not adopting. Well not exactly… Our family is preparing to welcome a German teenager […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[235,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-exchange","category-moms-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3921,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions\/3921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}