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Suitcases by Haddie Grace
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

"Suitcases," an original TCK song, focuses on resilience rather than grief, and instead of lamenting the absence of a traditional sense of home, claims the term by redefining it.

CulTure miKs
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

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!

10 Ways Expats and TCKs Can Relate to Buddy the Elf
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

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 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.

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 ...

Belonging 101 | Megan Dempsey | TEDxWoffordCollege
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

In her talk, Megan Dempsey describes what it's like to grow up as a "third-culture kid", feeling all her life like she belonged to neither American culture nor Brazilian culture. She explains how w...

The Means That Make Us Strangers
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

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 ...

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...

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...

7 Lies Christians in College Tell Themselves
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

Christians in college are susceptible to these lies. Here’s how each can be debunked.

7 Thoughts for Graduating TCKs
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

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 ...

Anchoring Yourself as an MK: A Review of Jeanne Harrison’s "Hiding in the Hallway"
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

MKs (missionary kids, third culture kids, TCKs) face challenges that few realize. Harrison's book offers honesty, empathy, and grace for the challenge.

By: Jenilee Goodwin