by Clare Klinghammer | Feb 20, 2025 | Blog
Especially when teaching children a new language, we langauge teachers have to stay creative to awaken and retain their interest, to help them to comprehend new concepts and help them remember new vocabulary, phrases and grammatical structures. While text books and...
by Clare Klinghammer | Nov 8, 2024 | Blog
Wie heißt eine Schürfwunde auf Englisch? Wie erklärt man auf Englisch das Thema Eingewöhnung nach dem Berliner Modell einer Mama, die glaubt, nach einem Tag kann das Kind schon sechs Stunden alleine bleiben? Wie vermittelt man einfühlsam auf Englisch einem Papa, dass...
by Clare Klinghammer | May 5, 2024 | Blog
Am I a parenting expert who has all the answers? No—like you, I regularly feel like I’m on the steepest “learning by doing” learning curve of my life! But am I bilingual (English / German), a QEKK-trained course leader, a parent of two...
by Clare Klinghammer | Dec 21, 2023 | Blog, Family Life in Germany, Nests & Wings Courses
At the groups I run, I have met many lovely parents. And as is often the case at groups aimed at parents of babies and toddlers, most people who attend are mums. But I have also got to know some dads who are the primary carer for their baby/toddler. Sometimes this is...
by Clare Klinghammer | Dec 10, 2023 | Blog, Family Life in Germany, Nests & Wings Courses
Once a month, I run an “International Breakfast” at the Familientreff in Oberursel. This is the same place I run a lot of my courses, and it is somewhere I got to know and came to love when my own children were babies. It is a not-for-profit organisation...
