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Audio: The Emotion of Living Abroad
Fritzi Gros-Daillon is an ATCK and author and Certified Living by Design Specialist. She earned her Master’s at Fritzi’s company reduces the stress for adult children by making the practical changes to a parent’s home. During this call Fritzi discussed: […]
Why 20th Century Diversity doesn’t fit 21st Century Citizens
I have come across something quite troubling in the many training activities surrounding diversity. In these activities I am required to admit my struggles and my privileges. The way that we focus on diversity, and how we talk about […]
VIDEO: A Cool American Independence Day Treat – ICEPOPS!
The United States celebrates its independence from Britain every year on July 4th. To celebrate with all American TCKs (is that even a proper characterization? Can one be a TCK and actually identify with one country? #oxymoron). Well, for those […]
International Marriage Equality Part III
Crossing borders is difficult. TCK’s cross borders all the time, cultural, national and political borders. But there are also boarders for rights and equality. It’s hard to be a TCK and to have that travel itch, but it can also […]
Code Switch or Chameleon? Communication Collides
Code switching is most often used in language and multilingual conversations. But I have found that while I do code switch in conversations with different accents and speech tactics, I also use code switching as a key communication tool between […]
International Marriage Equality Part II
In the first part of this three part series I discussed the general state of marriage equality around the world. For this article I have interviewed Elsa Bourdon, an ATCK living in Australia whose passport country is France. Elsa has […]
International Marriage Equality
Marriage equality is becoming more widespread around the world. There are now eighteen countries where same sex marriage has become legalized, starting in 2001 with the ever-liberal Netherlands. Two other countries have regional freedom for same sex marriages. In […]