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ConnectedApart. Launching in 8 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected.

Are you a parent who spends time apart from the children you love due to business travel? Feeling torn between work and home? Going through an emotional blender? Watching the children you love (and the caregiver/s left behind) go through the same? ConnectedApart can help. Stay connected and ease the natural pain of being apart with ConnectedApart’s free products and services, including practical, fun ideas like the one below:

Make a ‘where in the world is mommy/daddy’ quiz
You might not find the place exciting – and if you’re on a business trip, its probably not: just a dull string of taxi cabs, hotel rooms and meetings. But rest assured, wherever you are, the children you love will be interested – because, ultimately, it’s all about you, not the location. So, make the sadness of your departure a little easier to bare, with a fun quiz on the place(s) your visiting:

• Depending on the age of the children you love, you could send them some questions in advance (all at once or one a day) and have them research answers – you’ll probably even learn a few new things – and they’ll probably see more of the place than you!;
• Or, you could play the quiz at a pre-agreed time via video-call (asking all the questions at once or spaced out over a few days), topped off with a short YouTube video related to the questions you asked (if you’ve got two devices, just run the clip directly from one device, held up to the screen of the other. Alternatively, ask the caregiver/s left behind to play it on the home hotline (see tomorrow’s post) following your call).
• You could offer a surprise treat for quiz winners (make sure everyone wins!) from the place your visiting, for example a small memento, like a key ring or a cuddly toy in the form of a local mascot. Or you could pre-order a small book on the town, the local area or a local activity from Amazon.com – less baggage to carry and it might well arrive home before you do!
• Finally, consider a quick tour of something in the town, related to one of your quiz questions, via video chat, as a grand finale!

For more free ideas to stay connected with the children you love when you’re apart, bookmark ConnectedApart.com and join the ConnectedApart Community on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and/or on Twitter. You can also sign up for ConnectedApart’s free idea-letter, delivered once-weekly, directly to your inbox.

ConnectedApart. Launching in 8 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected.

Website: connectedapart.com (bookmark it now: live on 12 July 2018)
Contact: contact@connectedapart.com

Featured image by Luke Porter on Unsplash

ConnectedApart. Launching in 9 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected.

It’s stating the obvious, but being apart starts and ends somewhere. For ConnectedApart, ‘being apart’ starts when you learn about the need to be apart and ends after both you and the children you love feel sufficiently reconnected, following your physical return: being apart is not, therefore, the same as ‘being away’.

ConnectedApart and its unique APART model view being apart as a journey of three stages: ‘Leaving’, ‘Away’ and ‘Returning’. So, in considering how to strengthen and maintain loving connections with the children you love while apart, you’ll need to think about what to do before you leave, while you’re away, and after you return. One of the ‘secrets’ to healthy loving connections with the children you love while apart, comes from taking this bigger picture approach to ‘being apart’.

From the moment you start thinking about your period apart, to the moment you close the chapter, you will, in some way, be apart. Being apart is a series of transitions – a journey of changes, through different seasons of the heart, one in which you will fade out from and into the lives of the children you love – starting before you leave and ending after you return.

Get ready to stay connected by following ConnectedApart on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter, and by bookmarking connectedapart.com.

ConnectedApart. Launching in 9 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected.

Website: connectedapart.com (bookmark it now: live on 12 July 2018)
Contact: contact@connectedapart.com

ConnectedApart. Launching in 10 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected.

Staying connected with the kid/s you love when you’re apart is seldom easy. In addition to being an emotional rollercoaster (for you, the children you love and the caregiver/s left behind), there’s a lot to remember and even more to do: both to stay connected with the children you love and in your day-to-day life away.

Based on research and personal experience, the straightforward structure of ConnectedApart’s unique ‘APART Model©’ (or APART) helps you to focus on what’s most important, keep things in perspective and make the experience of being apart an enriching, rewarding and positive one for all.

Specifically, APART consists of three ‘stages’ (Leaving, Away and Returning), five ‘commitments’ (Anchor, Prepare, Availability (and Fun!), Reflect and Transition – which together spell ‘APART’, so you can never forget), and a number of easy-to-implement ideas for action to help you stay connected with the children you love when you’re apart.

Learn the ropes with ConnectedApart and stay connected: follow ConnectedApart on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter and bookmark connectedapart.com.

ConnectedApart. Launching in 10 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected.

Website: connectedapart.com (bookmark it now: live on 12 July 2018)
Contact: contact@connectedapart.com

ConnectedApart. Launching in 11 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected.

Get ready to stay connected by following ConnectedApart on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter, and by bookmarking connectedapart.com.

ConnectedApart. Launching in 11 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected.

Website: connectedapart.com (bookmark it now: live on 12 July 2018)
Contact: contact@connectedapart.com

ConnectedApart. Launching in 12 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected.

ConnectedApart supports businesses and other organizations in getting the best from their respective workforces, with solutions to help their personnel stay connected with the children they love while they’re on business travel or longer-term deployments. These solutions are critical to the success of employee wellness and wellbeing initiatives, the mission or the business trip and, therefore, to overall organizational performance.

Unfortunately, while the link between organizational performance and helping one’s personnel stay connected with the children they love while they’re on business travel or longer-term deployments has been known for some time, no dedicated service provider has existed to help businesses and other organizations develop solutions. Until now.

Get ready to stay connected by following ConnectedApart on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter, and by bookmarking connectedapart.com.

ConnectedApart. Launching in 12 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected.

Website: connectedapart.com (bookmark it now: live on 12 July 2018)
Contact: contact@connectedapart.com

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ConnectedApart. Launching in 13 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected.

Get ready to stay connected by following ConnectedApart on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter, and by bookmarking connectedapart.com.

ConnectedApart. Launching in 13 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected.

Website: connectedapart.com (bookmark it now: live on 12 July 2018)
Contact: contact@connectedapart.com

ConnectedApart. Launching in 14 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected.

Through an innovative, end-to-end, ‘idea-to-implementation’ platform for collaborative consumption and on the basis of its unique APART Model, ConnectedApart offers individuals and families a range of free products and services to suit their personal experience of being apart. In so doing, ConnectedApart helps individuals and families stay connected with the children they love in their own special way – and heal the heartbreak of being apart.

Get ready to stay connected by following ConnectedApart on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter, and by bookmarking connectedapart.com.

ConnectedApart. Launching in 14 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected.

Website: connectedapart.com (bookmark it now: live on 12 July 2018)
Contact: contact@connectedapart.com

Featured image by Tim Gouw on Unsplash

ConnectedApart. Launching in 15 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected.

Every year, whether due to work, living, health, study or other circumstances, hundreds of millions of people around the world spend time apart from the children they love: sometimes for days; sometimes for weeks; sometimes for much longer.

• Maybe you’re a mum on a two-day business trip;
• Perhaps you’re a dad on a week-long training course;
• Maybe you’re a mum deployed on a long-term mission with the armed forces, or with an international organisation such as the United Nations;
• Perhaps you’re separated or divorced and, therefore, are often apart from your children;
• Maybe you’re a sports person, away for another game;
• Perhaps you’re a grandparent, living on the other side of the country, or even the world;
• Maybe you’re a birth parent or part of an adoptive family in an open adoption;
• Perhaps you’re a musician, on the road for another gig;
• Maybe you’re an ageing godmother, who can’t make a short journey down the street to your godchild’s house given debilitating health issues;
• Perhaps you’re an aunt or an uncle, living in neighbouring city;
• Or maybe you’re an adult sibling, studying out of town.

Whatever the circumstances, being apart happens. And when it does, individuals and families often find themselves asking the same heart-wrenching question: how can we maintain and strengthen healthy loving connections (or ‘stay connected’) with the children we love when we’re apart?

Through an innovative, end-to-end, ‘idea-to-implementation’ platform for collaborative consumption and on the basis of its unique APART Model, which brings together research and personal experience (including from the ConnectedApart community), ConnectedApart helps you answer this question: and take away the hurt of being apart from the children you love.

Simply pick some ideas from ConnectedApart’s free products and services to suit your own unique experience of being apart – and stay connected with the children you love in your own special way.

Get ready to stay connected by following ConnectedApart on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter, and by bookmarking connectedapart.com.

ConnectedApart. Launching in 15 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected.

Website: connectedapart.com (bookmark it now: live on 12 July 2018)
Contact: contact@connectedapart.com

Then ConnectedApart is for you.

Launching in 16 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected

Geneva, Switzerland – 26 June 2018: ConnectedApart, the world’s first platform dedicated to helping people stay connected with the children they love when they’re apart, will launch on Thursday, 12 July, 2018: in just 16 days and counting!

Every year, whether due to work, living, study or other circumstances, hundreds of millions of people spend time apart from the children they love. If you’re one of these people, ConnectedApart’s free products and services are for you.

If you’re a business or other organization, ConnectedApart supports you in getting the best from your workforce, with solutions to help your employees stay connected with the children they love while they’re on business travel or longer-term deployments.

Get ready to stay connected by following ConnectedApart on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and Twitter, and by bookmarking connectedapart.com.

ConnectedApart. Launching in 16 Days. 12 July 2018. Stay tuned. Stay connected.

Website: connectedapart.com (limited functionality until launch date, 12 July 2018. The full website, and all free products and services, will be unveiled then)
Contact: contact@connectedapart.com