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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...

Third Culture Kids: A Gift to Care For
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

Third Culture Kids are Global Nomads who have moved in between cultures many times and therefore are a part of many cultures. Their beauty and challenge in life is to integrate and embrace all thei...

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...

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...

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...

Funny Things Third Culture Kids Say
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

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...

Living Between Worlds – A Post on TCKs
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

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...

FIVE Cs THAT EXPLAIN MKs: Help for Those Who Love us
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

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...

Fostering the Relationships in a TCK's Life
By PortalBot • August 22, 2020

For this post, I'd like to focus on the relationships TCKs have in their life. I'm going to share some ideas for the three different relationships they have (with family, with others, and with...

Teaching Students with Reactive Attachment Disorders with Nicola Marshall
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

What do you do when your students don’t trust you? For children who have experienced abuse and neglect, forming trusting attachments to adults and peers can be a challenge. In an effort to not be a...

The Global Nomad's Guide to University Transition
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

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 ...

A Country Far Away
By PortalBot • August 21, 2020

A remarkable and delightful picture book that shows how children are alike the world over, while at the same time celebrating the rich and interesting diversity of their ordinary lives.

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