IPN Thailand



Read about IPN in Education Living magazine.Click here MAY 29th 2012 Expat Repatriation: How to Prepare Your Family To Return Home by Julia Simens While many expatriates experience some culture shock when they first move abroad, repatriation, or moving back home, can be even more difficult. Many repatriating expats experience reverse culture shock on their re-entry to their home country, as they attempt to readjust to their previous way of life. We often hear about culture shock but transition shock is something we seldom expect. Understanding repatriation is very important. Many people are not truly in their home country nor are they from their host country, and thus, it is too easy to fall through the cracks. This is why global nomads find it is 'hard' to go home. This reverse culture shock can stressful and devastating if expat families do not prepare themselves as re-entry to their culture of origin or home country can be associated with a great deal of emotion. June 19th 2012 Anger Management More detals soon July 15h 2012 Family Trip to Koh Kred. Join us for a day trip to a man made island in the middle of the Chao Phraya River. More detals soon. Email ipn@ipnthailand.com for more details of this event. For information on upcoming IPN monthly events click on "Event Calendar" on our "EVENT" page or email us at ipn@ipnthailand.com for details. For family events and happenings around town, click on "LOCAL EVENTS" Do you have a medical query or a health concen among members of your family? Email ipn@ipnthailand.com and we will have our resident hospital, Bumrungrad International assist you.

INSPIRING POSITIVE PARENTING

WHAT IS IPN?
The International Parenting Network (IPN) is an organization which offers a wide range of parenting support services to parents and childcare professionals through events, seminars and workshops.

	IPN provides parents with family-based resources, learning opportunities, and effective techniques and strategies designed to support the raising of well-balanced children. Our rapidly growing network provides parents with a community platform where they can exchange parenting experiences, share solutions and ideas on positive parenting and receive advice and counsel from experienced professionals, support groups and other parents. IPN believes that a healthy and happy family benefits the whole society.

	HOW CAN IPN HELP YOU? If you are a concerned parent and find yourself looking for parenting solutions, have a desire to network with like-minded parents, want to attend parenting events and family workshops and have access to a wide range of parenting resources, then IPN is designed for you.


	SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES IPN offers a number of sponsorship opportunities for businesses and organisations who would like to support our activities and events. For further information, please email ipn@ipnthailand.com VISIT TO SCHOOLS YES! We would like to visit you! If you would like to know more about IPN and have us visit your school to introduce our organisation and talk to parents, email us at ipn@ipnthailand.com CHECK US OUT ON FACEBOOK!