We sold our house and nearly everything we owned to move our kids to Malta. Parenting is different here.

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We sold nearly everything and moved our family from Delaware to Malta. Raising our kids on the Mediterranean island has changed our lives.

In the fall of 2024, our local school district in Delaware moved the mandatory ALICE drills to start in kindergarten, my daughter's year at the time. These are intense quarterly drills where the school simulates a shooting, training children to hide in case of an active shooting. My wife and I had talked about world schooling before this, and had a lot of discussions about what would work for our family. We decided it was time for our family to leave. In April, 2025, following four months of intense paperwork, my son and I arrived in Malta as part of the digital nomad approval process.

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