A Calmer Advent for Expat Families and Third Culture Kids
Advent can overload kids' nervous systems. Practical, toddler-simple ways expat families and Third Culture Kids can share time and keep the season calm.
Is It OK to Self-Diagnose? A TCK Therapist Weighs In
Self-diagnosis has real upsides and pitfalls. A TCK therapist on when internet research helps, when it delays care, and why you don't need a label to get help.
TCK Anxiety: Taking “Easier” Seriously
Coping skills matter, but so does making life easier. How chronic stressors stack up for Third Culture Kids and creative ways to lower the overall load.
Helping TCKs in Transition: Collect Your Recipes
Before your next international move, write down what works for your family now. A solution-focused recipe for helping TCKs grieve, settle and thrive again.
Dissociation and Grounding: Taking a Break and Finding Your Way Back
Dissociation is the mind's way of taking a break. Simple grounding steps to plan your way back before hard conversations about trauma or TCK losses.
TCKs and ACEs: Adverse Childhood Experiences in Third Culture Kids
What the ACEs research means for Third Culture Kids, which globally mobile experiences can add up, and how caring adults can buffer the impact.
Recognizing the Posttraumatic Stress Pattern in TCKs
Presentation outline from the International TCK Conference on recognizing posttraumatic stress in Third Culture Kids, plus screening tools and resources.
Talking to TCKs About Trauma: Conversation Starters
Gentle conversation-starter questions to check how a Third Culture Kid is doing after a traumatic experience and spot the posttraumatic stress pattern.
How to Embrace a Bold Blend: Raising a Multicultural Family
TCKs are people of many places, more piano than clarinet. How a multicultural family can help kids embrace a bold blend of cultures instead of choosing one.
Where Is Home? Why “Home” Is Like a Dairy Farm for TCKs
“Where are you from?” is a hard question for Third Culture Kids. A dairy-farm metaphor for the scattered people and places that make up a TCK's home.
Don't Expect Common Sense: Reverse Culture Shock for TCKs
Common sense is only common to people with similar experiences. A TCK therapist on reverse culture shock and repatriation after growing up overseas.
Talking to Children About War: Notes for TCK Families
How to talk to children about war, with extra notes for Third Culture Kids and globally mobile families who may have personal ties to the places in the news.
Stretch Out the Transition: 10 Ways Graduating TCKs Can Stress Less
Parents of graduating seniors: 10 ways to stretch out the transition so your TCK carries less chronic stress through goodbyes, the move and college.
The Lasts Are Beginning: Goodbyes and Grief for TCK Seniors
The last game, the last class, the last time with a friend. Why noticing the “lasts” helps graduating TCKs and the people they leave grieve well.
College Transitions Are Coming: Easing Anxiety for TCKs
For TCKs, graduation can mean leaving a country, not just a school. Why college transition anxiety rises now and how families can prepare together.
TCK Podcast Review: Diary of a Third Culture Kid
A podcast by a TCK for TCKs. Why hearing your experience normalized by someone your own age matters, and episodes worth sharing with the teens in your life.
Free Transition Seminar Outline for TCK Care Providers
A free transition seminar outline for teachers, member care staff and counselors who support graduating Third Culture Kids. Spend your time on discussion.
The Thrive Center on TCKs During Quarantine
Fuller's Thrive Center published research on how Third Culture Kids navigated quarantine. A recommended read for TCK caregivers and globally mobile families.
Which Ancestors? On TCK Belonging and Faith
A TCK finally takes Church History and wonders whose ancestors these are. Reflections on belonging, faith and claiming a heritage across cultures.
The Funniest Arab Comedian Is Korean? A TCK Story
Meet a Korean comedian who grew up in the Arab world. An adult Third Culture Kid story full of jokes many TCKs will recognize from their own lives.