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How to Care Well for MK’s {An Interview With an Expert}
I think of Donna Kushner as a hero. She is a champion of MK’s and TCK’S, their stories, journeys and life struggles. She was so moved by the need to care for MK’s better, she pioneered a...
Les enfants expatriés : Enfants de la Troisième Culture
Résumé de l'ouvrage Les enfants élevés à l’étranger ont un parcours hors du commun : une enfance jalonnée de changements, d’adaptations, de découvertes et d’expériences atypiques. Ils se forgent un...
Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child: Practical Storytelling Techniques That Will Strengthen the Global Family
The only thing you can be sure you can move around the world is your child's ability to increase his or her interpersonal skills. In today's global world, each of us is searching for effective tool...
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 Trouble with Third Culture Kids | Children's Mental Health Network
~ Morning Zen Guest Blog Post – Nina Sichel ~ You may not notice her. At first glance, she may appear perfectly comfortable — these kids are chameleons, adept at taking on the colors of each ...
The Means That Make Us Strangers
Home is where your people are. But who are your people?
Adelaide has lived her whole life in rural Ethiopia as the white American daughter of an anthropologist. Then her family moves to South ...
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!
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 ...
But I Did Anyway - Mock Funeral
Mock Funeral There was no funeral.No flowers.No ceremony.No one had died.No weeping or wailing.Just in my heart.I can’t…But I did anyway,and nobody knew I couldn’t.I don’t want to…But nobody else s...
A Color of His Own
The classic story about searching for somewhere to belong, from four-time Caldecott honor winner Leo Lionni.Elephants are gray. Pigs are pink. Only the chameleon has no color of his own. He is purp...
10 Ways Expats and TCKs Can Relate to Buddy the Elf
I don’t know about you, but I find it very hard to believe that Elf has been around since 2003. It quickly became one of the Christmas movie classics — right up there with Home Alone, The Santa Cla...
The Long-Term Impact of Boarding School
The long-term impact of boarding school can manifest itself as 'boarding school syndrome' - a condition counsellors need to be aware of and work with.