Discover how school holidays differ worldwide. In Canada and Australia, students enjoy extended breaks with opportunities for reading challenges and early work experiences. In contrast, the UAE offers shorter vacations but emphasizes extracurricular activities and family time. This article explores these diverse approaches to school holidays.
School Holidays all over the world Read Post »
What are the reasons to stay far from home and family? Freedom. The freedom from our parents: mine – from my parents, my son’s – from his. So we all live in different places.
I still ask myself what I need more—to be with the man I love or with the son I love.
What is the cost of this freedom?
How Canadian & Russian Teens Spend Holidays (And How Parents Handle It).
When Canadian and Russian families flock to Mexican resorts for spring break, their vacation styles reveal striking cultural differences in parenting philosophies and teen independence.
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In Canada, school shooting drills mix police-led safety training with lessons on empathy, mental health, and community trust. The perspective of a Russian mom living in Canada, and also – her daughter experiences—hiding from “attackers,” memorizing safety acronyms, and chatting with donut-carrying officers. With strict gun laws but rare tragedies, the focus is on readiness, prevention, and keeping schools safe without losing their humanity.
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A stopover in Istanbul, a walk along cobblestone streets, Turkish cats – heirs of great Constantinople, Dad’s guidance, Turkish coffee causing a terrible headache, humiliation of women, the injustice of the whole world — and it all ended at the police station.
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What do we all reminisce about on New Year’s Eve? If we focus on the good, then good will happen. Being a manager and building a team that laughs together, hotel stories best left untold, quiet holidays spent with family. Meeting J – who embodies my dad’s patients. And, like Hercules, ready for the labors ahead.
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