America isn't the only way to raise a family. In fact, it's one of the worst. Not because American parents are bad. Because the system forces them to parent from a place of depletion instead of presence. When you live in other countries, you realize how many parenting norms you thought were universal are actually just American dysfunction. Other countries don't treat parenting like a side hustle you manage between work obligations. Parents have time. They have energy. They're present with their kids at parks and playgrounds instead of dissociating on their phones. But when you live in other countries and your baseline stress drops, you have bandwidth to actually be with your kids instead of just getting them through the day. Your kids don't lose anything by growing up abroad. They gain parents who aren't running on empty. Link in bio if you're ready to parent from a place of presence instead of survival. 🆘🇺🇸 #creatorsearchinsights
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America is not the only place that you can raise a kid successfully. In fact, there's successful parenting happening all over the world. In fact, I had this friend who used to say, "No matter where you go in the world, you can always find a banana," because there's moms trying to feed their babies and get through the day everywhere around the world. And you can do that too in whatever way that looks in a new country. In fact, here's a fun fact about parenting that I picked up when I was living in Japan. In America, we describe to our little toddlers who are learning words. We describe things to them using nouns. We will say ball or red or flower. That's how we describe things. And we say those like individual words for them to pick up that vocabulary. But in Japan, they don't do that. They describe things using verbs. They will say, "This flower smells good," or they will say, "That truck moves fast." And that's how they describe things to their toddlers learning vocabulary. So that's just a little nuance take about how parenting looks different from country to country. I think most Americans who have been abroad have seen differences like at the playground. At a playground in another country, Spain, for example, you will see parents engaged with their kids interacting with their kids and not sitting on a bench on their cell phone. And I'm not trying to throw shade at American parents who are trying to decompress after their extremely stressful lives. And they just want their kids to play on the playground while they unplug for a moment. But the problem is you have a life that you need to unplug from. Because that's how American society is set up. Whereas other societies have these third spaces to interact and be a community and relax. And they are so much calmer because they have lives that are not stressed out by just trying to survive like the United States has created. So living in other countries as a parent has been extremely eye-opening. And I love teaching other parents how they can escape the chaos of the United States. And not have their kids in situations where they're doing active shooter drills and worried about going out in public because of potential mass shootings by moving abroad. I help American families leave the United States by doing exit planning. If you're ready to call it quits and find a new way to parent your kids or you can be safe and free and calm and enjoy life again, that's what I do. The links to work with me are in my bio.
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