Third Culture Kids, 3rd Edition: A Guide to Navigating Cross-Cultural Experiences

Diane Mahmud: I wish I knew the information when I raised my TCK’s but at least I can recommend it to them as they raise theirs

United Kingdom on Dec 19, 2023

Tom Ballentyne: A lot of good advice on TCK’s

Canada on Apr 07, 2023

Brooke: I was on a retreat when this book was recommended to me as a TCK myself from the wife of another TCK. She said her husband really enjoyed it and when she read it it helped her learn more about him and his childhood. It has great insight and great examples, but it's not laid out like a novel and jumps about a lot. I'm an avid reader but this is a filler book for me when I don't have something I'm actively reading because of how it's arranged. I am determined to finish it because of the content. If you were a TCK or have someone in your life that is, you'll find a point of connection with this read.

United States on Jan 11, 2023

Matthias Hafemann: Sehr spannend und hilfreiche Gedanken, gut um zu reflektieren.

Germany on Nov 05, 2022

Rangel: A good book, different of the first edition, because now the authors added information about the modern ways of comunication. For me, very import because I a TCK and now father of a TCK. My wife is loving this book.

Spain on Jul 02, 2019

Sol: Ho scritto interessante, perché riporta degli ottimi insight per chi sta cercando di capire meglio il perché vivere tra diverse culture e paesi segna profondamente mente e spirito di chi ha questa “fortuna”. Evidenzia pro e contro, vantaggi ma anche le inevitabili ferite.
E’ secondo me un testo limitato perché parla di una categoria specifica di TCK, cioè di quelli con famiglie benestanti e background privilegiati i cui genitori viaggiano per motivi di lavoro, politici o simili. Non parla sicuramente dei TCK meno fortunati, che viaggiano per povertà o in fuga da paesi in crisi o con genitori che semplicemente vogliono offrir loro un futuro migliore.
Insomma, secondo me è un testo “snob”, per i TCK che andavano in uniforme alla scuola internazionale.

Italy on Apr 10, 2018

Buddha Baby: This book is invaluable for anyone who is or cares about a third culture kid (TCK):  one who has "spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside the parents' cultures".  This experience is common to children of missionaries, parents who work for international corporations, foreign service, aid organizations, educators, media representatives, military service, or whatever takes them out of their home country for an extended period of time.  This TCK experience can also happen actually to children who remain in their home country but live in a different culture within it, e.g. those whose parents work on an Indian reservation in the U.S. while not being born to that culture.

Many of the differences the reader would probably be aware of, such as differences in eye contact, handshaking, pointing and other mannerisms.  I remember walking out of a training about Native American communication where we talked about the fact that direct eye contact can be a sign of disrespect to elders in that culture, and having a conversation with a young man who made no eye contact with me.  My whole body strongly said 
"he's lying or hiding...

United States on Apr 29, 2013

J. Lavoie: This is a well written book establishing informative facts, charts, characterizations, examples of situations and plights of and about people who leave their home countries for reasons (mostly work related), therefore rearing and educating their children in other countries of other hemispheres. This is an introduction of what happens to children growing outside of their Visa country and so are named 'Third Culture Kids'. These are two new labels for me. These labels are referenced many times over to keep the discussion of countries straight for the sake of us...the readers.

Early in the book there is a discussion of how even our President, Barack Obama, was born in the USA (his VISA country), and though he and his mother were born in the United States of America, she chose to work for a while in the country of Indonesia, making him a Third Culture Kid, along with the fact that his biological father was born in a different Visa country, in Kenya, Africa.

This topic is not just that of one topic...it expands as it becomes more integrated with mixed raced parents, and even those parents before them of mixed raced parents, thus becoming quite different for the child of...

United States on Aug 08, 2011