TCK Parenting: Raising the Next Generation

The Questions ATCKs Ask as Parents

ATCKs who become parents face a distinctive set of questions. Do they raise their children internationally, giving them the TCK experience they had? Do they settle in one place to give their children the rootedness they never had? And if they do move internationally, how do they parent in a way that is more intentional than their own parents may have been?

• Are you making international lifestyle choices because they are genuinely right for your family, or because mobility is all you know and stillness is what frightens you?
• If you are raising your children internationally, what are you doing differently from how you were raised?
• How do you talk to your children about their internationally mobile life in a way that is honest about both the gifts and the losses?
• What support are you getting for yourself, given that parenting TCKs involves navigating your own unresolved TCK material?