Articles
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 ...
Citizens of the World - A conversation about MKs and TCKs with Michèle Phoenix. by BFA Life Podcast • A podcast on Anchor
Listen to this compelling conversation with a leader in the field of educating, training, and caring for missionary families and their children. We ...
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 ...
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 ...
Transitionitis: Also known as Happy and Sad Syndrome (HASS)
Written in jest (but only partly)... ABOUT Transitionitis/HASS is a very common ailment affecting hundreds of travellers each year. It is caused ...
So, what ARE you? | Third Culture Kid PSA
Filmed and published by Devina Lookman on Monday, November 11, 2019.
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 ...
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
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 ...
The Means That Make Us Strangers
"Christine Kindberg's fiction explores the complexity of identity, love, and faith with extraordinary intimacy and skill. Her bracing prose draws y ...
The trouble with third culture kids | Children's Mental Health Network
~ Morning Zen Guest Blog Post – Nina Sichel ~ You may not notice her. At first glance, she may appear perfectly comfortable — these kids are ...