Surviving Daycare: When Your Kid Starts, You Get Sick—Every. Single. Day. 🤧

If you’ve ever put your child in daycare, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Turns out, when your kid starts daycare, you also sign up for an all-you-can-catch virus buffet. 🎉

I’ve been sick for what feels like an eternity (okay, a month, but still), and all my projects have been on hold. But guess what? I’m back! And I have some exciting updates to share. So grab your tissues (just in case you’re sick too), and let’s dive in.

Teddy Bear sick

🚨 Big News: The Book Has a New Name! 📖

Remember Parenting Abroad: Thriving Together in a Foreign Land? Well, after lots of thought (and cold medicine), I decided to rename it to:

🎉 Parenting Unpacked: The Honest Guide for Raising Kids in a Foreign Land 🎉

Why the change? Because let’s be real—parenting abroad isn’t just about thriving, it’s about navigating the unexpected, unpacking cultural differences, and surviving the chaos of raising kids in a place that’s not your home country. This book is packed with real-life stories, practical advice, and expert insights to help you feel less alone in the parenting expat adventure.

👀 What’s Coming Next? Stay Tuned!

Now that I’m back from my unintentional sick leave, I’ve got a lot in store:

✔️ New blog posts on parenting abroad, cultural adaptation, and more!

✔️ Behind-the-scenes insights from the book-writing process.

✔️ Tips for expat families—because we all need that extra support.

So stay tuned, because things are about to get exciting again!

💬 Let’s Talk!

Have you also been hit by the daycare virus rollercoaster? Drop a comment below and let’s share the struggle together!

🔹 And if you’re an expat parent looking for advice, stories, and laughs about raising kids abroad, stay connected for more updates on Parenting Unpacked!

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Jessica Gabrielzyk

Jessica Gabrielzyk is a Brazilian writer living in Switzerland. She moved there with her husband and daughter, who was three months old at the time and had strong opinions about the whole thing even then.

She writes about change.

The visible kind and the kind that happens inside a person, while everything on the outside looks fine.

Her first book, Maternity Abroad, explored what it means to become a mother far from the system you trusted. It has reached readers in more than fifteen countries across five continents. Parenting Unpacked, her second book, follows the experience of parenting through major life disruption, whether that's an international move, a career loss, a new baby, or a life that simply stops responding the way it used to. My First American Coloring Book was created to help toddlers engage with daily life in the United States through play and familiar imagery.

She is a member of SIETAR, the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research, and the International Academy of Brazilian Literature.

She writes for the parent who is still inside it, getting through the day, and wondering somewhere underneath all of it who they are becoming.

When she is not writing, she is walking forty minutes uphill with a stroller, telling herself the exercise is the point.

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