How to help your teenager relocate overseas Being a teenager can be wonderful and testing at the same time. Being an expat teenager can bring additional blessings and
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Top 3 benefits of growing up an expat child
Benefits of growing up overseas St John’s School conducted a poll among 131 people who grow up as expat children and asked them for the main benefits. Respondents
Expat child – a gift or a curse?
The emotional impact of a move abroad for kids At the age of seven I moved to Nigeria with my parents. Looking back, this move and the many
An expat child has many layers of influence
Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory This was mentioned in Rianne Cornelisse’s paper about how expat children adapt when returning home. What is the theory of Bronfenbrenner all about? Model
How an expat child experiences life in their home country
Moving home after living overseas as a child In response to the articles about of self-harm in TCKs and expat teens, Rianne Cornelisse wrote the succinct and perceptive
An expat teen in trauma
A mother’s love This is for all expatriates who are struggling as they parent a teen in trauma. It doesn’t matter that statistics quote 25% of teenagers self-harm.
Help for parents of expat teens in crisis
Advice for parents of teens who self harm What helps us as parents live through a teen trauma and crisis journey? Here’s what I learned: 1. Don’t isolate
Perception on teens in crisis
Self-harm is a coping strategy, not the problem itself Another comment on the TCK Problems article was very insightful and could be of use to others experiencing mental
How to move overseas with children
10 tips to help you move abroad with your kids Help turn your relocation overseas with your children into a smooth move with these tips. An out-of-town move
Expat relationships are not ‘normal’
TCK problems – a response As I mentioned previously, I had numerous responses to an anonymous article I published on behalf of the mother of a self-harming expat
