Nomadic family challenges are the same as regular family challenges, just without the terror underneath. Your kids still make messes. Still ignore you. Still do weird stuff like cutting up clothes at midnight for no reason. Moving to Portugal didn't make my kids better behaved. They're still preteens. Preteens are assholes everywhere. But here's what changed: I'm not scared anymore. Not scared when they go to school. Not scared when we go to the mall. Not scared when I hear sirens. Not scared when my phone rings during the day. The parenting problems are identical. The stress level is completely different. In America, you're managing normal kid stuff PLUS existential fear for their safety PLUS financial stress PLUS healthcare anxiety. Abroad, you're just managing normal kid stuff. Same kids. Same attitudes. Same forgotten plates and field trip lunch logistics. Just without the baseline of constant low-level terror that American parents think is normal because everyone's living in it. Link in bio when you're ready to parent without fear as the foundation. 🆘🇺🇸 #CreatorSearchInsights #TikTokCreatorSearchInsightsIncentive
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to raise your kids outside of the United States? Well, I'm Veronica, and five years ago, I took my girls out of the United States, and we've lived on three different continents. I've raised them in the Dominican Republic, in Japan, and now here in Portugal. And I will say that from my assessment, I think that raising kids abroad is just safer, but it's very much the same. All right, I think our nervous systems, as a family, everyone in the house, our nervous systems are much calmer. We are overall just much more easygoing because we are not stressed about the things like basic safety that they are stressed about in the United States. So the kids go to school, they don't have to worry about gun men. We're less stressed about money because financially it's a lot easier to live abroad. There's just overall less stress, okay? But at the same time, kids are kids. And so raising preteen girls, they're now, they started out of the United States when they were six and eight, and now they are 11 and 13. So this morning, I mean, my daughter ate her dinner in her room last night, and apparently after we went to bed, cut up a bunch of her clothes with some scissors. And so this morning, there was scissors and a dirty plate in her bedroom. And I said, hey, can you bring those downstairs? And she came downstairs and I didn't see her. So I assume she had done it. And I commented to my husband on the way to the gym. Oh, that was so nice that she did that without talking back or anything. But then I got home and the plate and the scissors were still on the floor. She just ignored me altogether because she's a teenager. And would that happen in the United States? Most certainly. So I would say the majority of our life is probably very much the same. They go to school. My younger daughter today had a field trip. So instead of getting to have access to the microwave at her school that she often uses to warm up her lunch, we had to pack something that didn't have to use a microwave because of the field trip. So that's just like a logistical thing that parents have to deal with in the United States. And we deal with it here in Portugal. So yeah, I would say a lot of our life very similar to what happens in the United States. Just safer. I can send the kids to the mall on the weekend and they can romp around without any fear. I'm not scared. They're not scared. There's just no risk of anything happening here. And that feels good. That helps us have lower cortisol levels. It helps us be way more chill. And that's what it's like to raise your kids abroad. Very much the same, but also inherently different because everything is safer over here.
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