third culture kid

In a three-part series of interviews with third-culture kids (TCKs) and cross-culture kids (CCKs), we will learn about the upbringing of TCKs, making a life after many cultural experiences and raising of mixed-race children. In part one of our series, […]

Second-generation third-culture-kid (TCK) Myra Dumapias freezes up a bit when asked the basic question: “Where are you from?” What is she supposed to tell people? Though she now lives in San Antonio, Texas, should she list off every country she’s lived in to every […]

Dahlia Ambrosine, an insightful and beautiful woman whose life is full of adventure. Although Ambronsine was born in Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies, she identified not only Trinidad and Tobago is her home, but also Colorado. She calls Trinidad home because […]

        I Shared Smitha Day’s life experiences in Part 2 of this series, JUXTAPOSITION PHOTO SERIES – Part 2: Smitha Day’s Life Challenge as a TCK. Now, let’s turn to the page of Karishma Day, the daughter […]

Houses change. Friends come and go. I move to a new place with new people. Growing up, almost nothing in my life seemed constant. My family would move every two to four years while my father was in the air […]

Recently I’ve been studying up on leadership in on of my psychology classes and I can’t help but to think how many times I’ve heard that TCKs often become equipped with incredible leadership skills. Skills such as a deep empathy […]

Leah is a Missionary/Business TCK. Her family moved to Ethiopia because her father “wanted to serve people there through missions and several businesses that they established.” Leah was born in America and moved to Ethiopia when she was three years […]

With every new technological development, we get closer to a common global lifestyle. Maybe not all of us are TCKs or have any plans to ex-patriate any time soon, but new advances in communication and social media are evolving our […]