Why a Sudden Departure from Home is a Big Hairy Deal
I watch the events in Egypt unfold, my thoughts are with the thousands of expat children and families who are living in Egypt as well as their Egyptian friends and…
January 30, 2011
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I’ll Be Home for Christmas But Only in the Expat’s Dreams
When Bing Crosby first crooned the lyrics, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas”, I wonder if he ever dreamed it would become a seasonal theme song for expats and their families…
December 24, 2010
TCK to future TCK: Advice about Successful International Moves
You’ve heard that expression, “Out of the mouths of babes comes the truth.” Well, when talking to the students at the Anglo-American School of Sofia (AAS-Sofia), I certainly heard a…
December 1, 2010
Overseas Families Need to Care About the College Visit
This last year alone, I did over 100 campus visits. That’s a lot of time and expense spent on travel! So why do I do it? Because there is no…
November 22, 2010
6 Things I Learned about International Mobility, Transitions, and TCKs
Let’s face it. International moves – at least the tasks involved with moving – are really never much fun. Putting your life in boxes, then shipping it around the world,…
November 12, 2010
Transitioning to College – How Third Culture Kids and Parents Can Be Better Prepared
by Rebecca Grappo, founder, RNG International Educational Consultants, LLC The countdown to graduation has started! Students now know where they will be attending college, and they are busy saying goodbye…
May 29, 2010
Where are You From?
Ask a *Third Culture Kid (TCK) where he/she is from, and watch most of them stumble over the answer. The TCK wonders, do you mean where I was born? The…
April 13, 2010
Options for Struggling Teens
Is Wilderness the Right Choice? All of us know of teens or young adults who seem to have a harder time growing up than others. They have various struggles, and…
April 10, 2010
“Trailblazer” Expats Robin Pascoe and Jo Parfitt Honored at FIGT
When members of the audience were asked to stand if their own life had been touched by either Robin Pascoe or Jo Parfitt, almost everyone in the room stood up….
March 14, 2010
Advice for Couples Separated by Assignments
As I wrote yesterday, the audience at FIGT was inspired by the Ivany’s “straight from the heart” conversation about raising their own kids overseas. (In fact, upon reviewing my notes…
March 13, 2010
8 Steps to Building a Close Expat Family
Expat families who move frequently know that it’s a challenge to keep everybody happy about all the changes. And few families move as often as military or diplomatic families, who…
March 12, 2010
Teaching Locally, Thinking Globally: Helping School Educators Think about TCKs
Perhaps one of the highlights of the conference for me was the presentation by Ruth Van Reken, who co-authored the book, Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds, with the…
March 7, 2010
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