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About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mai...
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About this blog: I was a "corporate brat" growing up and lived in different parts of the country, ending in Houston, Texas for high school. After attending college at UC Davis, and getting an MBA at Harvard, I embarked on a marketing career, mainly in the Bay Area with different companies. My former wife went back to medical school after we had been married a few years, and we moved into married student housing at Stanford, had our two now adult children while she was a medical student, and moved into Palo Alto when she started her Residency. Been here ever since. As my kids were going through the Palo Alto schools, I was actively involved in their activities, most notably head umpire for Palo Alto Little League and 9 years as a member of the Parks and Recreation Commission, among other activities. My kids both are grown, my son teaches 5th grade locally, and my daughter, fluent in Mandarin, is working in China. I sold the business I owned and ran for 8 years in 2012, worked on the Obama campaign, and am consulting for non-profit organizations, which gives me a nice, flexible schedule. Lots of stamps in my passport, and for fun, I like live performances &emdash; theater and music - and of course the Giants!
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Children Away From Home
Uploaded: Sep 12, 2013
My 23yo daughter just shipped off for a year in China.
She's been there before, actually several times, speaks fluent Mandarin, and it is terrific that she has chosen to go there to teach English for a year. Her older brother spent a year in South Korea doing the same.
They both attended college away from this part of the world.
From a mindset standpoint, I as a parent have not viewed differently Spokane, Washington, Middlebury Vermont, Pusan, South Korea, or various Chinese cities where my now adult children have spent their time. None is easy to get to from here, some effort required. (I actually had an experience traveling from here to Dallas, Texas that took longer than a flight I took to Shanghai!)
That is what intrigues me. My kids come and go around the world, and it is not a big deal. While I have traveled both for business and pleasure in my lifetime, it was for many in my cohort a big deal.
Not so, as I perceive it, in our kids' generation.
And the level of effort to visit my kids when they are some place else in the world is not all that different from visiting at their colleges here in the States, in locations that required at a minimum one flight change, and typically a long drive as well upon landing.
All for the better. I just wish we did not have to take off shoes to satisfy TSA at the airport.
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