Duo Project's volunteers and staff will facilitate live-chats about topics touching intercultural parents and parents-to-be on Perheaikaa.fi. The website is in Finnish, so you need to do the registration in Finnish in order to sign up for chats. More information: http://www.familiaclub.fi/duo_internet_groups.html
First one starts in about 1 hour:
“My time, your time, our time” -Finding time together in daily life
on Tuesday 24.4.2012 at 16.30-18.00
Are you wondering how to spend one-on-one time with your partner and how take care of your relationship after becoming parents? Come and share your thoughts and questions with other parents and parents-to-be. Let's chat about family time and couple time on Tuesday 24.4.2012 at 16.30-18.00. The English-speaking chat is facilitated by Duo Project's volunteer facilitators.
Come and discuss the joys and challenges of parenthood and relationship, share your experience and ask questions from other couples, parents-to-be and parents!
BR,
Elina Pöllänen
Duo Project
Other chats in English in spring 2012:
“What do you think of sauna and salmiakki?” - Moving to Finland for love
on Thursday 3.5.2012 at 18.30-20.00
Come and chat about living in Finland as a foreign partner - or with a foreign partner. In this chat we can share our experiences about Finnish winters, meeting the in-laws, and the amount of love and sisu needed to overcome all the challenges of intercultural relationships and adjusting into a new culture! Come with your experiences and thoughts to chat with other people living in intercultural relationships on Thursday 3.5.2012 at 18.30-20.00. The English-speaking chat is facilitated by Duo Project's volunteers.
“Daddy will find your tutti” – Raising bilingual kids
on Wednesday 23.5.2012 at 16.30-18.00
You and your partner speak different languages and use a third to communicate with one another? Are you wondering if your child will speak both languages or just one? Are you searching for the best ways to support the development of both languages? There are many of us with the same thoughts and questions! Come and chat about the joys and challenges of raising bilingual - or multilingual kids - on Wednesday 23.5.2012 at 16.30-18.00. The English-speaking chat is facilitated by Duo Project's volunteers.