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Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds | 
| Authors: David C. Pollock, Ruth E. Van Reken
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 33379
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
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Pages: 360
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 1857882954
Dewey Decimal Number: 303.32
EAN: 9781857882957
ASIN: 1857882954
Publication Date: March 22, 2001
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 a special heritage December 22, 2008
Essential reading for all expat parents and their children. This book resonated so profoundly for me that I bought a copy for everyone in my birth family: children of expats who were themselves children of expats.
It examines and explains the common experiences of those who spend a significant part of their development years outside their parents' home culture. Pros and cons are addressed, together with practical advice on how to deal with problems. The authors' understanding of the unique interpersonal and intrapersonal needs of children coming and going from culture to culture is both first-hand and well researched.
As a result of this book, I also suddenly realised that all my friends are TCKs and why so many of us are global nomads; some of us physically, all of us mentally so. There is so much clarification about our shared attitudes and beliefs.
 Helpful and informative. August 16, 2008
A very positive resource for parents who will be faced with many of these now clearly defined and common issues and experiences. Especially useful for parents who won't have the expeiences their child will know.
Sometimes though it seems a bit anecdotal and also too flattering - many children who aren't TCK often feel the same way as those described by the authors. It's like reading a description of your horoscope sign and saying "OMG that's so me!"
I'd have liked a more researched read - the 'Endnotes' are usually autobiographical in nature. Perhaps there is not a lot of formal research conducted on this topic. If so then this is an encouraging guidebook for the increasing numbers of parents of TCKs.
a life changing book for the "third culture kids" November 13, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is absolutely amazing to read for any TCK, or a person "who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside the parents' culture" ("The TCK profile" seminar material, Interaction, Inc, 1981, 1). At first reading the book had been very difficult simply because I was crying so much reading it that I could not even see the letters anymore. This is because that book puts into words what many TCK knew unconsciously but never put words on it, like the feeling of being different and awkward in one own culture, not having a sense of where home is, etc...
The book has a very positive approach to the analysis of TCKs, and will refer to these issues as challenges rather than problems, and gives keys to transform these challenges into useful tools for everyday life. It also outline well the advantages one gains from such an experience, and it will probably help people maximise the use of these particular skills in their life.
It also gives advice about moving abroad by explaining the different emotional steps a person goes through when moving to a new country, and how to deal with relationship issues related to the TCK way of life and many other useful advices.
In addition, it has a great section on what relatives and friends can do to help the TCK with eventual problems that may arise from that particular experience.
I really recommend this book particularly for adult TCKs as it will help them put in words what has been in their heart all along.
Third Culture Kids January 7, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is a must-read for anyone who has grown up in several countries and has been exposed to different cultures or who is bringing a child up under these circumstances. The book is based on sound reaserch and is an easy read, without the usual psychobabble. It lays out both the positive and the negative impacts of such a lifestyle and exposes clearly the characteristics of "Third Culture Kids". The book concludes with very practical recommendations on how to overcome the negative aspects and encourage the positive, when bringing up a "Third Culture Kid". There is also much sound advice for adult TCKs. As an adult TCK myself, the most gratifying - and reassuring - part of reading "Third Culture Kids" was finding out that there are so many others who have encountered the same difficulties, shared the same joys and have come out of a TCK childhood with very similar experiences to mine... I couldn't recommend this book more.
 This is a brilliant book! May 27, 2001
27 out of 28 found this review helpful
Having read a borrowed copy, I couldn't resist buying one for myself. This is an excellent book for anyone having had to deal with growing up in more than one cultural setting. If you've ever wondered why possessions become so important, why it's harder being 'back home' than it was living abroad, where this constant drive for pastures new comes from or why people seem to think you're stuck-up, then this book is for you! Similarly, if you've had more addresses than you have birthdays or changed schools more often than you care to remember, buying this book could prove to be the best money you ever spent.I whole-heartedly recommend this book to any parent considering moving abroad, anyone having been shifted from one place to another and anyone dealing with people who have (partners, grand-parents, youth group leaders, teachers,...). Every school, church, mission base and embassy library should have a copy. An Lannoo
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