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Advice for Starting a New School
Starting a new school is very daunting. Especially in a new country! Help your child make the new start as pain-free as possible with these simple tips.
By Carole Mallett Hobbs
Michèle Phoenix
Are you a Missionaries' Kid (MK)? The parent of an MK? Do you work with MKs and would you benefit from some insight into their strengths and struggles?
Author and Speaker: Michèle Ph...
Pondering Purple
Michèle Phoenix, international speaker and writer on issues related to Third Culture Kids, highlights her most popular and helpful articles in a format you can consume on the go.
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iGen: Why Today's Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy--and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood--and What That Means for the Rest of Us
Born in the mid-1990s up to the mid-2000s, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other act...
Expat Child - Practical Overseas Relocation Advice for Parents
Moving abroad with children? A complete and practical guide to moving overseas and living the expat life with kids - wherever you are in the world.
By: Carole Hallett Mobbs
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 ...
Hidden in My Heart: A Tck's Journey Through Cultural Transition
When Taylor Murray arrived in Japan, she felt like she was on an adventure-an adventure that God had called her family to take. The unique food, the strange language and the foreign culture were ex...
Good Grief: Helping TCKs Navigate Their Unresolved Grief
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...
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...
Burn Up or Splash Down: Surviving the Culture Shock of Re-Entry
Just like a space shuttle struggles and strains to re-enter the earth's atmosphere, so those returning from living overseas can find themselves confused and in a state of panic at coming home. Whil...
The Global Nomad's Guide to University Transition
Third culture kids/global nomads have typically interacted with two or more cultures during their developmental years - those years that shape who they are as human beings. As they go about living ...