How Do You Be A Lovable Host Family?
• Ask questions. Find out about your new son’s/daughter’s natural family, school and environment. What’s easy and what’s difficult. Is their behavior here similar to their behavior at home? • Don’t judge. There’s more than one right way. Exchange students are teenagers. They are not through growing, learning, or changing. • Communicate directly. Exchange students need praise and support as well as knowing where they stand and if there’s a problem. Don’t make them guess if you’re happy or you not. • Stop problems quickly. Explain what is bothering you when it’s small so it doesn’t get worse. • Be patient. Understand that you have rules and expectations that don’t match what your exchange student has grown up with. Use patience and discuss what you expect with your student. • Support the rules. Organization rules and local, state and federal laws are in place to protect you and your student. If your son/daughter gets into trouble for breaking rules, it’s not okay that you were the one wh
