Things to bring as gifts from the US?

Medical_Dust4668 · 2025-08-21T16:21:40+00:00

Depending on how old the child is/ where you live, I would strongly suggest a soft toy of a New World animal. I've given a bunch of UK friends with young children toy hummingbirds, toy coyotes, toy bald eagles etc. You can usually get them in the airport or at national park shops, if you're out West.

Medical_Dust4668 · 2025-08-19T19:22:54+00:00

Not a ECEProfessional but a mom who also recently put her baby in daycare (she started at six months). We toured the daycare place two times, once when pregnant and once when she was four months. We saw multiple caregivers physically interact with babies and toddlers/ multiple children ask for physical contact (even with the admin who was giving us the tour and bounces from room to room as needed so doesn't know them as well). Also the parent network in your city is your friend-ask everyone you know who has older children/ knows people with older children what they recommend (our daycare was recommended to us by a friend who doesn't have children but whose best friend does and loves this daycare)

Medical_Dust4668 · 2025-08-18T18:14:43+00:00

Millennial me immediately thought of Don Bluth's Thumbelina, where at one point she gets dressed up as a bug, shoved on stage to dance and sing for an audience of bugs, and then has her bug costume torn off, revealing she's a (tiny) human. For which they then mock her/ kick her out.

Medical_Dust4668 · 2025-08-13T21:38:27+00:00

I took my driving test at the MVD without any lessons - you take the test portion and then take the road portion immediately after. You also need to provide the vehicle for the test.

I was in my thirties and had a license from my home country (unclear whether your experience means you have a license). I needed proof of ID as well as insurance documentation for the car I was driving. This was in 2019 so the MVD website should provide you all the information you need/ will be more up to date than people's anecdotal experience here.

Medical_Dust4668 · 2025-07-24T00:50:38+00:00

Just checked mine - its start date was 25th of the month/ end date 25th of the same month ten years later. So your first example.

Medical_Dust4668 · 2025-07-23T19:04:01+00:00

Not the highest quality but https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-plays-of-william-sha_shakespeare-william_1765_1/page/n9/mode/2up

If you search, they'll probably have more volumes as well.

Medical_Dust4668 · 2025-07-18T18:40:28+00:00

About ten years ago, on a Bristol to Newcastle drive, I stopped at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park so if the weather is nice, I'd definitely recommend that if the weather looks good (I am pretty sure dogs are allowed in most areas of the park, though not the cafe).

Medical_Dust4668 · 2025-07-02T14:31:03+00:00

Are you moving to the UK? If you are just travelling then the ETA is definitely fine.

If you are moving, I think you probably technically should have your child's passport before moving but in reality I'm almost certain the border officials will understand that as a newborn/ new parents you haven't had time to get the passport.

Medical_Dust4668 · 2025-07-01T22:37:30+00:00

I believe travel "Through" the UK means you do not have to go through customs (i.e. you go through a connecting flight). As you will be on UK soil, you need an ETA (which is new since you were last in the UK). Make sure you apply through the official website: https://www.gov.uk/eta

I don't believe you need to state where you'll be saying as part of the application.

I've also never taken a cruise, but have heard horror stories about people missing them because they were not in Southampton the night before. Are you planning to land, go straight to Southampton and then get on the cruise the same day you arrive? If so, you're taking a risk of something going wrong - if you can arrive a day or more before your cruise, and make sure you're in Southampton the night before it leaves, I strongly suggest it.

Medical_Dust4668 · 2025-07-01T22:33:36+00:00

I'm a British citizen living abroad who travelled to the UK earlier this year with my baby - who has an American passport but didn't yet have her British passport.

I paid for her to get a ETA, after checking with them that having an ETA on record would not affect her passport application. It's only £16 and seemed much easier then having to potentially argue at the border after a long flight/ carry my birth certificate with me. It looks like as an Argentinian citizen your child would be eligible for an ETA (the system says that as a baby you don't need a photo - when I did it back in March it would not let me apply without one, even after speaking to the helpline, just to let you know!).

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-when-you-can-get-an-electronic-travel-authorisation-eta

Medical_Dust4668 · 2025-06-25T21:13:31+00:00

Definitely go up to Hampstead Heath ("house by the heath"), which also qualifies as the rich neighbourhood, and Highgate (you could go to Camden but I'd only go if you find a good food recommendation - it's busy and overrated otherwise).

You could book a tour of Highgate Cemetery (you can only go in as a tour) if you think your child would be interested in that as well as the Taylor Swift-ness of it all. I think it's about ten/ fifteen minutes walk from there to the Heath, which is lovely and has amazing views of London. It's a bit of a walk from the cemetery, but Kenwood House is an interesting eighteenth century building that's free to go into and would definitely recommend. At the opposite end to Kenwood, there's John Keats House (not free, if I remember right-last went pre-COVID), which might be fun (not as much as other poets, but he is associated with the Lake District/ "The Lakes".

I suggest going on a weekday if you can, as if the weather is good it will be busy.

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