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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Felix[/quote]

Felix is a masculine given name that stems from Latin felix [ˈfeːliːks] (genitive felicis [feːˈliːkɪs]) and means "happy" or "lucky". Its female form is Felicity.

You are of Dutch heritage and grew up in a village near Amsterdam. You studied for a masters of business economics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and for a PhD in economics and international trade at The Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.). You met your Czech of Chinese descent wife at Utrecht University, and thankfully she does not expect you to master either of her mother tongues. You applied to international organizations in the US at the same time as you were both up for the adventures. Your wife was contracted as a junior economist at the IMF while you took longer to secure a consultancy at the World Bank IFC.

You are both too busy for raising more than one child. You value happiness (Dutch children rank as the happiest youth in the world) while your wife’s Chinese culture values auspicious signs and good fortune.

Hence, Felix was the obvious choice for your one child as it combines happiness and good fortune in one easy mouthful. In German, Dutch, Czech, Slovenian, Romanian and Scandinavian languages the form "Felix" is the same as English. Even though in French, Hungarian, Slovak, Portuguese and Spanish it is written with an acute accent, "Félix", and in Catalan it is written with a grave accent, "Fèlix"., it is still fairly straightforward for most of your expat and American friends to pronounce.

You are quite proud of the fact that In 2013, Unicef released a ‘report card’ that concluded that Dutch children are the happiest of all, based on five categories: material wellbeing, health and safety, education, behaviors and risks, housing and environment. The Netherlands scored highest in both behaviors and risks and education, and its excellent scores in the other categories put it firmly in the leading position, followed by four Scandinavian countries. (The United States was at the bottom, worse than Greece but better than Lithuania.) Dutch children vouched for their own happiness, with 95 percent “reporting a high level of life satisfaction.”

You are somewhat concerned about Felix growing up in the US but feel that the DMV area is a far cry from Mississippi, Alabama and other highly polarized places where there are seemingly endless stories of people who mocked Covid-19 vaccines before eventually dying from the disease. You figure that your family will probably not have to worry about high rates of unwanted teen pregnancies and mass gun shootings at the elite Washington International School.

You are going to do your best to raise Felix in Dutch ways while your wife is somewhat of a Tiger Mother so the end result may be something closer to typical American parenting anyway. You have already started teaching Felix about “the birds and the bees”like Dutch kids who have generally healthy senses of their own body images and very low unwanted teen pregnancy rates.

You encourage Playing instead of doing homework, like where you grew up. In the Netherlands, play is encouraged and considered an important part of childhood development. After hours of playing, like other Dutch parents your mantra  is rust (rest), regelmaat (regularity), and reinheid (cleanliness). Your wife on the other hand, encourages Felix to do 2-3 hours of homework a night and to complete his set piano practice, so he ends up doing closer to the Middle School norm for this area, being 1-2 hours.

Fortunately, the IMF and World Bank allow for paternal leave for fathers to help take care of sick children and they provide child benefit packages. You are grateful to have benefits that are the norm in Europe and find it sad that your American friends are envious of benefits that are standard in most other wealthy countries. You hope that will change one day, but it does not look likely in the current polarized landscape.

You think that it is cool that Felix is growing up in such a diverse and vibrant area.

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