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Parental Pals are passionate parents who believe in open minded education.
Their key elements: a global perspective, playful curiosity, confidence, respect,
good humoured common sense and partner families with a kindred spirit.

They see the benefits of cooperation. Here is where they meet.


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	Parental Pals are a strong and dynamic peer-to-peer network of families. They want their kids to grow up with a sound understanding of life and with good partners to handle its challenges. Their children should have the ambition, the confidence and the right friends to regard the whole world as their playground.


	The Parental Pal aim for their children: Maximized access to their own potential, backed by a strong and open family. To talk with grace, to move with ease - to everyone, everywhere.


	The idea: to establish partnerships to give each other what benefits all and cannot be accomplished easily alone.

		The Parental Pal fundamental elements: A strong relationship between the generations, responsibility, common sense, a vivid interest in culture and knowledge, fairness, a global mind and a good sense of humour.


	ParentalPal.Org offers you a highly focused interface to select and connect with parents who have kids in the same age group as your own. You get to know them without time pressure and you can find out step by step if you have the right chemistry to be partners while your daughters and sons proceed on their way from being children to adulthood.

Care to try a scenario ? Lets assume you have a talented daughter and you would like her to learn the French language. With Parental Pals you find a charming family in Paris with a girl her age. You set up your personal plan of exchange during the holidays and both kids benefit. That would be a good and efficient way to practice a language and get to know another country. How much more attractive would it be if the girls parents had a lot in common with you, if you had common ground through your profession, your hobbies, your values and aims in life? If there were a great chance of becoming friends and a potential for future co-operation? Trust and familiarity would multiply, so would the fun-factor and your personal involvement would turn from parental duty to family pleasure.


		Alternatively: imagine one of your best friends from university has settled happily in Berlin many years ago. Or one of your brothers lives and works in Singapore or maybe Sydney – including his wife and kids ... Chances are you would use these contacts to help broaden your own children’s horizons. Within such a scenario it would be fun to establish a tradition of reciprocal visits and calls, to exchange mails, photos, books and perhaps favours. Naturally there would be more activities (with and without visitors) in your family life, you and your kids would experience more things together. How would that - perhaps years later - affect your efforts to communicate with adolescents when feelings occasionally run high? And how about the relationship with your children - looking a few decades into the future ?


	Your friends and relatives aren’t really suited to create the right scenario for your family ?

			Not to worry at all: Parental Pals offer you a considerably better strategy anyway!



Education, diversity, creative capacities : Learn and improve language skills with native speakers, get easy access to summer schools, find a place to stay during an exchange student year, benefit from regular mail and phone contacts, exchange good books, web links and insider knowledge - get the full advantage of hybrid education into your lives. Save money and improve results by arranging your kids’ language training as a holiday with friends - an efficient and very affordable strategy ! Benefit from the two-generation idea and redefine your holiday arrangements: enjoy language and cultural exchange as a win-win system.

Team up with your Parental Pals to acquaint the kids with values that really make a difference (and which their own school system cannot all convey successfully): a sense of honour, good manners, spiritual awareness, love of the arts, a sense of duty to friends and society and a longing for independent enquiry and intellectual curiosity.

Travel, culture, values - variety !

Visit other countries off the beaten tourist tracks (!) and use the opportunity to see interesting places from the insider’s point of view. Get to know local sports and new culinary delights, learn about regional customs and gain historic insights.
Exchange city life for the countryside or the other way round and enjoy the benefits of local guidance with it. Meet people who share your passions and your values ... perhaps they’re just as fond of Shakespeare or the Rolling Stones or maybe they feel strongly about the same NGOs as you do.

Introduce your kids to people who share your ethics and beliefs and let them have a truly good time to go with it ! ... more ideas

Put on offer what you have easy access to yourself, give help and advice where you have the means and the experience. It’s give-and-take for everyone’s benefit.

Peer benefits:

The key to educational insight: adolescents find their strongest motivation in the admiration and the approval of their peer group! (more about peers here)
Find Parental Pals who share your ideals, like parents who also encourage their kids to learn to play an instrument, to enjoy good literature, to appreciate decent manners and to get a kick out of a good conversation.

Give your kids role models that you can approve yourself and they can find attractive and interesting. Establish friendships with people of various nationalities to offer your children an attractive insight into other walks of life, other ways of thinking & behaving, other daily routines than your own.








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