Led by Isa Benros

Parenting across cultures often brings long-held ideas about “good parenting” into focus. Expectations shaped by where you grew up, your family norms, and the cultural context you learned them in.

In this session, we explore what happens when those expectations meet the realities of raising a child in a new country. Parenting without extended family nearby, navigating different cultural ideals at once, and noticing the tension that can show up between responsibility, doubt, and choice.

Through short inputs, guided prompts, and open conversation, the session creates space to recognize familiar experiences in others and share how parenting across cultures is actually showing up in everyday life.

This session sets the tone for the series by naming common experiences, normalizing ambivalence, and opening up conversation around how parents define their own version of parenting across cultures.

Led by Carly Spring

Many parents hear the term Third Culture Kid and wonder whether it applies to their child, and what it might actually mean in everyday life.

This session introduces the idea of Third Culture Kids in a clear, non-academic way, focusing on what it can look like to grow up between cultures, languages, and reference points. We’ll explore common experiences around belonging, identity, and cultural in-betweenness, without treating difference as something to fix or predict.

Alongside this, the session makes space for parents’ own reactions. The mix of pride, worry, grief, relief, or uncertainty that can come with raising a child whose experience of culture won’t mirror your own. Through shared conversation and reflection, parents are invited to recognize familiar questions in others and name what they’re carrying.

The goal is to offer language, perspective, and connection, helping parents feel more oriented and less alone as they navigate this part of their family’s story.

Led by Carly Theodosi

Language choices are rarely just practical. They’re tied to identity, belonging, family history, and how connection happens at home.

In this session, we look at how children learn multiple languages in early childhood, covering the basics without turning it into a technical lecture. Alongside this, we surface common worries and myths many parents carry, from fears about confusion or delay to questions about consistency and effort.

The session also makes space for the psychological side of multilingual parenting. Passing on a mother tongue, juggling multiple languages in one household, and navigating situations where a child shares a language with one parent but not the other. Through shared conversation, parents can recognize familiar dynamics and hear how other families are handling similar tensions.

The aim is to help parents feel more confident and less conflicted about the language paths their families are on, and to leave with a clearer sense that there is no single right way to raise multilingual children.

Led by Byurakn Ishkhanyan

Parenting across cultures often leaves parents holding many experiences at once, moments that don’t neatly resolve but still shape how we see ourselves and our families.

In this closing session, we use guided writing as a way to pause and make sense of what has surfaced across the series. The focus isn’t on writing skill or polished stories, but on putting words to experiences, questions, and shifts that may still feel unfinished or hard to articulate.

Through individual writing time and optional sharing, parents can explore how meaning forms in complexity, how perspective changes over time, and how multiple truths can coexist within one family story. Listening to others’ reflections often helps clarify your own, even when experiences differ.

This session brings the series to a close by offering space for integration, continuity, and authorship, supporting parents in shaping the narratives they carry forward.