Transitions - Moving On: General

The only thing you can be sure you can move around the world is your child's ability to increase his or her interpersonal skills. In today's global world, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help our children to thrive. Emotional Resilience for the Expat Child provides a step-by-step guide that is designed to increase a child's emotional vocabulary and emotional intelligence. Doing this will enable your child to achieve his or her fullest potential. The bond between an adult and child is key to the psychological health of the child. For the expatriate child, this bond is more vital than ever.

Moving logistics are an important yet small part of a successful move. Ultimately, it is your attitude and actions which will determine the outcome of your move. Will my children and I be happy in our new location? Will we be able to meet the challenges that a move to a new location brings? Speaking from her experiences of moving on numerous occasions as a child and as an adult through corporate relocations, Sara Boehm offers important advice she and others have found valuable to help you make the most of your new adventure. With preparation, thoughtfulness, and planning you can manage your move in a successful and even beneficial way for yourself and your family. Let the adventure begin!

Moving your family can be stressful for your children, especially your pre-teens. Pre-teens are at a unique point in their lives where they are beginning to experience a new wave of social, emotional, academic, and extra-curricular pressures and often relocating to a new city or school may be a difficult and identity-challenging experience. Whether they are feeling anticipation, sadness, anger, or confusion, getting their thoughts out of their heads and onto paper can help.

A guide to relocating overseas that offers practical suggestions to deal with the many challenges that arise during the relocation process and addresses the unique aspects of adjusting to life abroad.

Children who grew up interacting with two or more cultures during their developmental years often have an inability to connect with their home-country peers. This guide addresses the common issues students face when they are making the double transition of not only adjusting to a new life-stage, such as college, but to a cultural change as well.

Like the move overseas, the move home relies on a solid and stable person to act as the emotional touchstone in order to help everyone else in the family through re-entry shock. That someone is typically the spouse. Homeward Bound is a repatriation reality check to help spouses create new, meaningful lives when they return from abroad.

Explores some of the feelings people experience when they move to a new home, and describes ways in which they can feel comfortable and make new friends.

Offers twenty-five items of practical advice on how to make moving a positive experience for children, including modeling a positive attitude, and throwing a goodbye party.

A guide for students transferring to new schools, including advice on making new friends while keeping the old friendships, surviving the first day of school, and more.

The author shares personal stories and information on raising children in foreign countries.

Moving can be difficult for everyone involved. It can be difficult for students, parents, and school staff. This issue is now addressed in one complete manual.

Slurping Soup and Other Confusions (Summertime Publishing), a collection of 23 real-life stories from third culture kids. Each story is followed by a related activity. The activities are suitable for three to 12 year olds and include brainstorming, problem solving, party planning, family tree, and squirky word creations.

Explores the experiences of third culture kids--TCKs--kids who live abroad during a large part of their childhood, and gives advice for dealing with this upbringing.

Contains interviews and personal writings that provide insights into the lives of so-called third culture kids--children of expatriates, missionaries, military personnel, and others who live and work abroad, and examines the experiences of cross-cultural kids, including immigrants, the children of biracial or bicultural parents, and international adoptees.

"Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no"--Jacket flap.

Crossing borders and boundaries, countries and cultures, these are the children of the military, diplomatic corps, internatinal business, education and missions communities. This collection addresses issues of language acquisition and identity formation, childhood mobility, and adaptation in these childhoods.