It is completely natural for you to worry about your little ones as they jet off to the other side of the world. With limited communication methods and foreign office guidelines sending you up the wall with panic, you have nightmares of kidnappings and muggings and no way of reaching your baby to keep them safe and sound, as well as keeping you abreast with their new life out there. Or maybe they haven't actually got round to planning anything yet and you're fretting that – horror of horrors - they'll end up living at home for the next year.