While working on a research paper for the Diversity and Social Issues in Education course at Cedarville University, I took a study break with our 13-year old. I mentioned to her that I was reading and writing about her--about TCKs. She paused, thought hard, and then asked with a smile, "Totally confidant kangaroos?"
-- Perhaps. :)
Here she is pictured with two other TCKs (third culture kids) and Aunt Joanna Salley (ABWE coworker).
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Thanks be to God for all those "Totally Confident Kangaroos" who give so unselfishly so that they and their parents may be in the fields of service to which God has called them. His abundant blessings upon them all!
Amen...
I have read so much about TCKs this week...and we really do fit the defined-by-research profiles. But one topic, barely mentioned, dealt with the motives behind why a family may be in a second culture to start with. I remember teaching in Paraguay and thinking about the government-based TCKs....wondering how the parents developed the family buy-in to live in still developing countries. I am sure there are ways to do that, but to have the privilege to live overseas because God knows it’s best for all involved—including His own glory—that has huge WOW value.
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