The Road Taken: How to Dream, Plan, and Live Your Family Adventure Abroad is your guide for envisioning and creating the family experience of a lifetime. What does your future hold? Settling in a Mexican village? Backpacking through Asia? Homeschooling with the world as your teacher? The Road Taken will develop your wanderlust into a plan and […]
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Don’t you wish there was a step-by-step guide to successfully raising a family abroad? Or anywhere, for that matter! Unfortunately, no one has all the answers. What I can offer, however, is years of experience listening to young people who were raised overseas. I’ve learned a lot about what their parents did to help (or […]
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Introducing the outstanding book by Expatriate Specialist team member Rachel Pieh Jones Testimonials BUY NOW “A collection of reflections by global citizens who have difficulty answering where they or their offspring are from.” –Rev. Taylor W Denyer; president and co-founder, Friendly Planet Missiology Tweet this “Rachel has assembled a plethora of strong and capable voices, all […]
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Things to never say to the parents of boarding school kids and the responses that go through parents’ minds when they hear them. There are few responses to our decision to send our 12-year old children to a boarding school that are harder to hear than, “I could never do that.” Especially […]
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Five years ago I wrote a post, 15 Things I Want to Tell My Third Culture Kids. I’ve been writing my kids letters and telling them things for years. When they return to school every three months, they return with packets of letters. One for each week, usually written on the back of a photograph of people and […]
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When you are going to college or you have kids going to college, it is like being pregnant. Meaning it is all you talk about. All the time. Every day. All the time. Like, always. All the times. TCKs might get tired of this and might enjoy talking about something else. Like the World Cup. Or international politics or
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The acronym TCK is fairly well known in expat circles. What is less well known, however, is what these three cultures are. Most people assume it’s 1 + 2 = 3. That is, my first country (home) plus my second country (where I live) equals a mixed up third culture. While there’s a little something to that, the reality is quite different.
Continue ReadingI can’t keep my kids safe. But I can prepare them for a life of faithfulness. Fifteen years ago, my husband and I did the riskiest thing we could imagine and took a job in the Horn of Africa. People often responded by asking, “Are you bringing the kids?” We had two-year-old twins at the […]
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The rise of popularity in un-schooling, homeschooling or traveling the planet with your students (your own kids) as worldschooling has made a comeback. A ‘come-back’ you say? Yes, it’s a return…
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What it’s Like to Be an American Mom Raising Kids in Djibouti, Africa I have been a parent now for 15 years. But for 13 of those years, I have lived thousands of miles away from my hometown in the American Midwest, in what’s known as the Horn of Africa (Somalia and Djibouti). As a result, most of my actual […]
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