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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 clas ...
So, what ARE you? | Third Culture Kid PSA
Filmed and published by Devina Lookman on Monday, November 11, 2019.
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 ...
Five Reasons I’ve Failed to Grow Through Seasons of Transition
Once when I was introducing a workshop for global workers on the topic of transitions, I conducted an experiment. I asked the attendees to introduc ...
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 t ...
The Waiting Place
As part of my former job, I used to help run the kids’ program for pre-field training for staff heading overseas. It was a fairly intense, five-wee ...
A Color of His Own
The classic story about searching for somewhere to belong, from four-time Caldecott honor winner Leo Lionni.Elephants are gray. Pigs are pink. Only ...
How to Care Well for MK’s {An Interview With an Expert}
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 ...
Hiding in the Hallway: Anchoring Yourself as an MK
Written specifically to missionary teens, Hiding in the Hallways offers MKs a biblical context for their faith in light of their unique circumstanc ...
The Beautiful Art of Goodbyes: A Missionary Kid’s Perspective
In a life of constant transition, coping with farewells is a familiar but painful feeling for MKs.
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 ...