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TCK Training
The mission of TCK Training is to come alongside parents and sending entities for the purpose of equipping, encouraging, and empowering them to raise up healthy Third Culture Kids.
By: TC...
An Interview with Sara Saunders, Author of the TCK Book - SWIRLY
There have been a lot of books written about Third Culture Kids but not so many for them, especially for young TCKs. Swirly, written by adult-TCK Sara Saunders and illustrated by Matthew ...
CulTure miKs
This is a website for Third Culture Kids (TCKs). Go ahead and click around to discover some great art created by TCKs, for TCKs, about the TCK experience!
Identity Theft of Third Culture Kids.
This post will have some nodding their heads in agreement and others shaking their fist in frustration. It’s a risk I’m willing to take I’m actually terrified of you people. Others may read this, n...
The Beautiful Art of Goodbyes: A Missionary Kid’s Perspective
In a life of constant transition, coping with farewells is a familiar but painful feeling for MKs.
Funny Things Third Culture Kids Say
Kids say the darndest things. Parents make the darndest lists out of them. Writers published the darndest lists of the darndest things those kids say. Sorry. Some of these are from my own Third Cul...
Particle Physics Finally Explains Third Culture Kids!
Similarities between neutrinos (subatomic particles) and TCKs. Am I just plain crazy to see this metaphor?
By: Elizabeth Trotter
5 Tips for Leaving Well With Teenagers
Moving overseas with teenagers can be daunting for both the teen and their parents. Having personally moved overseas as a young teen, I can speak to the challenges of uprooting and rerooting during...
FIVE Cs THAT EXPLAIN MKs: Help for Those Who Love us
Defining what it means to be an MK ranks right up there with summarizing the plot of Inception or The Matrix. We’re not just Rubik’s Cubes. We’re Rubik’s Cubes whose facets are made of multicultura...
Living Between Worlds – A Post on TCKs
For as long as I can remember I have lived between worlds. My first memories of life are from a rooftop in the southern area of Pakistan. The high, flat roof surrounded by walls was a perfect place...
7 Thoughts for Graduating TCKs
Dear Graduating Senior, This spring I hugged you. I cried with you. I said goodbye to you. And then I looked into the faces of your parents as they said goodbye too. How can I express the depth of ...
Lori Anne Thompson
Lori Anne is a Survivor/Storyteller specializing in Child Abuse and Clergy Abuse. Her second stream of emergent expertise( Registered Kinesiologist