Third Culture Kids Additional Resources

Bre:

  1. Fletcher, A. “Lifestyles of third-culture kids. S. Hamilton, MA: Center for Youth Studies.” (1995).http://cultureandyouth.org/third-culture-kids/articles-third-culture-kids/lifestyles-of-third-culture-kids/

This website is a summary of the common pros and cons of  TCK’s from TCK’s.

  1. Peterson, Bill E., and Laila T. Plamondon. “Third Culture Kids and the Consequences of International Sojourns on Authoritarianism, Acculturative Balance, and Positive Affect.” Journal of Research in Personality 43.5 (2009): 755-763. Print.

This journal defines the consequences and things TCK’s have to go through while maturing.

  1. Selmer J., and Lauring J. “Self-Initiated Expatriates: An Exploratory Study of Adjustment of Adult Third-Culture Kids Vs. Adult Mono-Culture Kids.” Cross Cultural Management 21.4 (2014): 422-436. Print.

This book shows the adjustments of being a TCK and how it affects you as you age.

  1. Sheard, Wenda. “Lessons from Our Kissing Cousins: Third Culture Kids and Gifted Children.” Roeper Review 30.1 (2008): 31-38. Print.

This book is highlighting the gifted children that are TCK and able to learn and exceed.

Madison:

  1. Cottrell, Ann Baker. “ATCKs have problems relating to their own ethnic groups” TCKWorld: The Official Home of Third Culture Kids (TCKs). TCK World, 1999. Web. 13 Nov. 2016.

In this article, it discusses how difficult it is for ATCKs to relate and connect to their own ethnic groups.

  1. Cottrell, Ann Baker. “ATCKs Maintain Global Dimensions throughout Their Lives.” TCK World: The Official Home of Third Culture Kids. TCK World, 1999. Web. 13 Nov. 2016.

Ann Baker Cottrell uses information gathered from current, ongoing studies of TCKs and concludes that ATCKs maintain global dimensions throughout their lives.

  1. Cottrell, Ann Baker. “TCKs Experience Prolonged Adolescence” TCKWorld: The Official Home of Third Culture Kids (TCKs). TCK World, 1999. Web. 13 Nov. 2016.

Cottrell draws another conclusion from the TCK survey studies that TCKs experience prolonged adolescence, or in other words, adult TCKs feel “out of sync” with the rest of their age group.

  1. Maurer, MaDonna. “Homes Remembered…the Expat Life.” RaisingTCKs. RaisingTCKs, 20 Apr. 2015. Web. 13 Nov. 2016.

This source comes from a TCK’s parents point of view, and offers information through a  different perspective other than a TCK.

Paola:

  1. Faye, Ndéla. “Am I Rootless, or Am I Free? ‘Third Culture Kids’ like Me Make It up as We Go along | Ndéla Faye.” The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 09 Mar. 2016. Web. 11 Nov. 2016.

Ndela Faye writes about her own struggle with being a Third Culture Kid and how it personally impacted her. She specifically talks about what it is like to have pieced together her identity and how grateful she is to have been able to have the experience of creating her own identity from the different aspects of her parents’ cultures and the cultures of the places where she has lived.

  1. Pollock, David C., and Ruth E. Van Reken. Third Culture Kids : Growing Up among Worlds.Rev. ed. Boston: Nicholas Brealey Pub., 2009. Web.

This is the book that Dr. Ruth Van Reken wrote with David Pollock in which she first described what it was to be a Third Culture Kid. This book has a series of different topics and personal stories all of which relate to life as a TCK and how to help non-TCK adults understand how to help Third Culture Kids grow as people.

  1. “TCK Academy.” TCK Academy. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2016

This is an informative and social website dedicated to Dr. Ruth Van Reken, the woman credited with developing the term “Third Culture Kid”, and is full of articles people can read to better understand the experiences of TCKs. It is also a helpful and supportive website with resources and information geared towards Third Culture Kids trying to better understand their unique position and themselves.

  1. West, Blandine. “The 10 Biggest Struggles for Third Culture Kids.” The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group, n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2016.

Blandine writes about the 10 most common struggles that Third Culture Kids seem to go through and find the answer to for themselves; she presents these struggles in an easy to read ten point format and explains her thought process in a way that is relatable for other TCKs as well as anyone who merely interested in better understanding the topic.