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9 questions to consider before leaving your field
A timing question. We all leave the field eventually. So when is the right time? When I was a field director in Congo I would say, I sure hope the ...
The Waiting Place
Waiting is one of those things we may not realize will be part of expat life when we're starting out. But it is oddly common: a season – ...
8 Rules of Transition
I have moved to a third new country in seven years (and that’s not counting all the moves back and forth to my passport country.) Your story is pro ...
112: Returning Well: A Guide to Thriving After Serving Cross-Culturally - Encore Episode
Melissa Chaplin, author or “Returning Well” helps us understand what it’s like for workers to return “home” after cross-cultural service. Melissa o ...
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 découve ...
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 ...
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 a ...
My Very Exciting, Sorta Scary, Big Move: A workbook for children moving to a new home
Moving is one of the most stressful life events for kids, but this award-winning book will help make it less hectic and more exciting. "My Very Exc ...
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
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Belonging 101 | Megan Dempsey | TEDxWoffordCollege
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 ...
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…”
”What does Corona Quarantine and TCKs have in common? For the third episode of TCKs 101 we’re tackling the big one: grief. Disenfranchised an ...
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 classi ...