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Mothering Abroad

Retired Columns

From “Life in the Sandwich” to “Special Needs Mama” to “Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance”—they’re all here for you to explore.

¡Adios, Amigos!

Bilingual Babe Well, now I have two of them. Elías, at 16 months, is quite a bit more vocal than Pedro was at that age, and he already has quite…

Mothering Abroad | December 2005 | By Kate MacVean


Ama de Casa

My next door neighbor is at it again. I hear her through the walls, filling buckets of water for mopping, vacuuming the throw rug in her bedroom. And as if…

Mothering Abroad | October 2005 | By Kate MacVean


Home Again

The first thing I noticed was the green. Tall grass, big leafy trees. The scratchy dryness of Madrid in summer seemed more than a plane ride away as I got…

Mothering Abroad | August 2005 | By Kate MacVean


Friends

At a parent meeting at my son Pedro’s preschool, I corner his teacher. “So, how’s he doing?” “Oh, he’s fine,” she answers. “Although sometimes he just sort of, well, does…

Mothering Abroad | July 2005 | By Kate MacVean


What Might Have Been

I’m at Pedro’s preschool, in a parent education workshop about exploring our childrearing philosophies. I’ve been looking forward to the chance to meet and exchange ideas with other parents, and…

Mothering Abroad | May 2005 | By Kate MacVean


No Hay Palabras: 11-M Remembered

Where were you on March 11, 2004? If you are American, you probably don’t remember. If you are Spanish — or, like me, living in Spain — you will probably…

Mothering Abroad | March 2005 | By Kate MacVean


Home for the Holidays

It’s 9:50 am in a not-so-small town outside of Madrid. I’m pushing a double stroller across the bridge over the highway on the way to Pedro’s preschool. After I drop…

Mothering Abroad | January 2005 | By Kate MacVean


Filling in the gaps

“The _____ on the bus go round and round . . .” What red-blooded American preschooler would not be able to fill in the gap on that one? Mine. Of…

Mothering Abroad | November 2004 | By Kate MacVean


Three Julys

July 2003 The sudden emotion welling up in me threatens to overflow as I pay for the magazine, commenting to the friendly cashier at the newsstand. “Qué pena, lo de…

Mothering Abroad | September 2004 | By Kate MacVean


Childbirth Choices

By the time this column is published, our family size will have increased by one. Since, as I write, the big event is drawing nearer every day, I find myself…

Mothering Abroad | August 2004 | By Kate MacVean


Dia De La Madre

Dar mucho, pedir poco. “Give much, ask for little.” This is the motto of the “motherhood medallion,” created in 1969 here in Spain to acknowledge the many sacrifices involved in…

Mothering Abroad | June 2004 | By Kate MacVean


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