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When Cross-Cultural Kids Are Rejected by Their Own Family

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My cross-cultural children’s English is starting to sound more international these days. Just recently, a close friend visiting laughed after my son enunciated all the words in: The wa-ter is near the comp-u-ter instead of using the more natural flapped American wader and compuder. The friend’s giggle was spontaneous and light-hearted. But it keeps happening. […]

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How Being a Third Culture Kid Taught Me to Embrace Natural Parenting

4 Comments / Earth Day, Expat Life, Parenting, Third Culture Kids /

I am an American citizen, but I was raised in five different countries: the United States, Guatemala, France, Bolivia, and Austria. I lived outside of the United States from when I was seven years old until when I was eighteen years old, which I spent most of my childhood as a Third Culture Kid. After returning to the

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