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Gifted Kids, Global Family, and the Pull of Overseas Life

Podcast: International Teacher Podcast · Current Cohosts: Hannah, Jacqueline, and Greg

Opublikowano: 2026-08-01

Marijn Bergsma joins Greg and JP to talk about growing up as a third culture kid, raising gifted children, and feeling the familiar pull back toward international life. The conversation moves through childhood in the United States and Japan, returning “home” to the Netherlands, parenting highly capable kids who do not always fit neatly into school systems, and the possibility of becoming an international educator later in life. It is a thoughtful, funny, and very human conversation about family, restlessness, learning, burnout, and why overseas life has a way of turning ordinary years into unforgettable chapters. The Rubi...