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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We moved to another country for 3 years just for the purpose of travel. DH had office their, and I found another job. Older kid did 3 years of middle school in American school overseas, and younger started ES there. Overall, it was a great experience. They were sad to part with some of their friends in VA, but two of the best friends came to visit us and they stayed in touch via emails. We lived in the same place for three years. We travel a lot during school year (we had to pull them from the school for a period of 2 week), but they were straight A students and never had problems catching up. We wend to see a lot of Asia and Pacifics. We saw a lot of Middle East: UAE, Oman, Quatar, Jordan and Israel.Then we did long driving trips (approximately 2-3 weeks each) in Europe: South France, England and Ireland, Holland, Belgium, South Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Check Republic, Romania, Hungary, Ukraine and Russia. We would fly (or take a train when possible) to a selected country, rent a car, and then drive around (we planned a route in advance). In some places we rented apartments if we stayed longer then 3-4 days, in some it was B&B or local farms, in some it was camping. I would say the last year of middle school was getting harder to catch with school mathe and science. We enrolled them back in VA school last summer, no problem with accepting their documents from the American overseas school.[/quote]

PP, if you are still reading, We would be on the same timeline with our DS as your older child re doing this during Middle School.  Not sure if we would do 1, 2 or all 3 years away.  Developmentally, most teens have a strong need to establish and tighten peer-peer relationships.  Ours is an only child.  Did your older child have any issues with integrating/reintegrating socially?  Did they speak the local language of the country you moved to before going there, or learn it on the spot?  When you say that the last year was difficult to catch up with respect to math/sciences, do you mean that those subjects lagged behind your VA school, or that your child wasn't able to go on your 2-3 week driving holidays without slipping behind?   TIA for your advice![/quote]

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