You Know Your Children are Being Raised Overseas When...

This has been making the rounds on the internet, and is worth repeating.

You know you're raising kids overseas when...

1. Your children don’t know their parents’ brothers or sisters, but they have at least 50 Uncles and Aunts who are no relation to them at all.

2. Your kids can translate between American, British, New Zealand, and Australian English.

3. When you say, “We’re going home,” your kids ask, “Which one?”

4. It’s 85 F outside but your kids want jackets.

5. Hundreds of total strangers have photos of your children on their mobile phones.

6. When you’re in a restaurant and the server doesn’t try to pick up your toddler and carry him around, you’re surprised (and a bit disappointed since now you have to watch him yourself).

7. Your children know exactly how to behave when the customs official examines you in the airport.

8.Your kids flew before they could walk.

9. Your kids can greet strangers appropriately in multiple languages and cultures, but they’re not sure how to relate to their cousins.

10. Finding your children in a crowd is easy: they’re at the center of it.

11. Your kids think change is normal and normal is boring.

12. You teach geography by saying, “And Uncle John lives there, and the Johnsons are from there…”

13. The thought of sending your children on an unescorted plane trip doesn’t scare you nearly as badly as putting them back into your home country’s public school system.

14. You realize one day that your definition of “home” isn’t even on the same continent as your children’s definition.

15. Your kids have more stamps in their passport than most backpackers.

16. Your kids think another plane ride or border crossing is routine but the sight of a park with real grass makes them ecstatic.

17. Your kids can sing the Veggietales “Water Buffalo Song” and mean it.

18. You had to get new pages in your child's passport before he turned five.

19. Your children are as comfortable with adults as they are with their peers and don't like always having to be separated to be with their own age group.

20. When visiting the US, your kids look at their grandparents' back yard and exclaim, "Oh look, a whole park just for me!"

21. When your kids think wearing shoes is optional.

22. When your child can fall asleep while riding on a motorbike.

23. When your child hates mashed potatoes, gets tired of bread, and loves rice and beans.

24. When your child can speak four languages very clearly: the national language, an otherwise unintelligable village language, English, and broken English complete with an authentic accent.