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Hiding in the Hallway: Anchoring Yourself as an MK
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

Written specifically to missionary teens, Hiding in the Hallways offers MKs a biblical context for their faith in light of their unique circumstances, challenges, and opportunities. Filled with per...

Such A Bubble with Waciwi
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

Waciwi calls it like it is. She shares her story with courageous transparency and honesty and challenges the culture and religion that shaped her developmental years. She speaks with passion and vu...

The Beautiful Art of Goodbyes: A Missionary Kid’s Perspective
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

In a life of constant transition, coping with farewells is a familiar but painful feeling for MKs.

Kaleidoscope for TCKs’s Instagram post: “For the third episode of TCKs 101 we’re tackling the big one: grief. Disenfranchised and accumulated, TCK grief is unique...except for when…”
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

”What does Corona Quarantine and TCKs have in common?  For the third episode of TCKs 101 we’re tackling the big one: grief. Disenfranchised and accumulated, TCK grief is unique...except for wh...

A Color of His Own
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

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...

Emotional Resilience and the Expat Child: Practical Storytelling Techniques That Will Strengthen the Global Family
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

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...

Les enfants expatriés : Enfants de la Troisième Culture
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

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...

But I Did Anyway - Mock Funeral
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

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...

How to Care Well for MK’s {An Interview With an Expert}
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

 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...

An Interview with Sara Saunders, Author of the TCK Book - SWIRLY
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

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 ...

Everywhere & Nowhere Third Culture Kids
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

This project is my final major project (12 weeks) for my Foundation Year at the Arts University Bournemouth.

’Everywhere & Nowhere’ is a short film (documentary) about my story as a t...

Good Grief: Helping TCKs Navigate Their Unresolved Grief
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

I grew up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I only moved there when I was ten but had lived a few places before then.  So when we got there and stayed for almost eight years – all of middle and high s...