Moving to the Netherlands with your family? It’s a big change, but don’t worry – we’ve covered you! Here are 15 tips you need to know, before moving to the Netherlands.
These tips will help you and your family settle in smoothly and happily in your new Dutch home. 🇳🇱
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15 family tips for a soft landing in NL:
- Attend activities to make contact with others. We are social people, and we need others to be happy.
- Give your children and yourself time to adapt
- Be open-minded
- Learn the new language, just like your children
- Be curious and use your sense of humor
- Don’t forget to give yourself time to adapt. Accept feelings of homesickness and loneliness. Don’t push it away, even though the feelings are difficult to handle.
- Look at the ‘happy’ side of things in the country
- Try to understand the Dutch culture and don’t judge
- Ask questions, and let people explain things you don’t understand
- Try to stay positive. Solve or accept problems instead of complaining about them
- Ask advice from other people who have been in the Netherlands longer
- If you’re homesick don’t hide this from your child, show them you miss your family and friends as well
- Smile, be vonurable and take care of your special family
- Isn’t this the time to do that course that you always wanted to do? Or learn that new sport? Or read that book?
- Remember: It’s an adventure, an enrichment and life-changing
Let’s make your new life in the Netherlands a great adventure! 🌷
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