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Culture Shock! Successful Living Abroad: A Parent's Guide [Paperback]

Robin Pascoe (Author)
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Culture Shock! Practical Guides January 1, 1999
Whether you travel for business, pleasure, or a combination of the two, the ever-popular "Culture Shock!" series belongs in your backpack or briefcase. Get the nuts-and-bolts information you need to survive and thrive wherever you go. "Culture Shock!" country guides are easy-to-read, accurate, and entertaining crash courses in local customs and etiquette. "Culture Shock!" practical guides offer the inside information you need whether you're a student, a parent, a globetrotter, or a working traveler. "Culture Shock!" at your Door guides equip you for daily life in some of the world's most cosmopolitan cities. And "Culture Shock!" Success Secrets guides offer relevant, practical information with the real-life insights and cultural know-how that can make the difference between business success and failure.

Each "Culture Shock!" title is written by someone who's lived and worked in the country, and each book is packed with practical, accurate, and enjoyable information to help you find your way and feel at home.


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About the Author

Pascoe is well known to travelling spouses around the world for her inspirational and humorous culture shock books about being a wife and parent. She also speaks to expatriate communities and human resources groups about the challenges of expatriate and repatriate life facing the spouse and family.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 271 pages
  • Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company (January 1, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1558684255
  • ISBN-13: 978-1558684256
  • Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,468,088 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Robin Pascoe's reputation as a funny, engaging and inspirational international speaker on the subject of her five books on global living was earned as a former Canadian diplomatic spouse (on postings to Bangkok, Taipei, Beijing and Seoul); raising two third culture kids, and by traveling globally to over 25 countries for more than a decade from her home base in North Vancouver, Canada.

Robin is also the go-to expert for corporations interested in understanding the needs of expats and their families and making recommendations for family-friendly relocation policies.

Her website, which went up over a decade ago, has tons of articles also to read if you are preparing to move abroad so have a visit at http://www.expatexpert.com.

She recently posted a video lecture series based on the themes of all of her books called "Successful Living Abroad" which can be viewed at http://www.expatexpert.com/video_lectures. You can watch one of them directly below this biography.

If you are a social media person, she tweets most days with links to articles or information about expats at http://twitter.com/expatexpert. She's also on Facebook as Expat Expert at http://www.facebook.com/pages/ExpatExpertcom/43896605366 and and part of the Linked In network http://www.linkedin.com/in/expatexpert.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Don't leave home without it, January 2, 2001
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This review is from: Culture Shock! Successful Living Abroad: A Parent's Guide (Paperback)
What a fantastic book. I wish I had found this book before my husband's first assignment.

If you know in advance the changes that your relationship and your kids are likely to through before you go abroad, you will be able to put things in perspective as they happen, and plan to navigate the bumps ahead. I've lived ten years abroad and I found Robin's observations bang-on.

Her writing style is delightful and entertaining, and she will lift a great deal of stress from your shoulders. I'm now living happily in Egypt and this book is constantly on loan to friends here.

Her book on "A wife's perspective" is also good, but if you have kids you'll find most of the relationship material well encapsulated here, so you don't need both. Oh - and don't forget to check out her website.

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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good overview, June 10, 2000
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Campbell C. Dunson (south carolina/brazil) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Culture Shock! Successful Living Abroad: A Parent's Guide (Paperback)
We are getting ready to move and taking a 1-year-old. I found the nuggets of info in A Parent's Guide really helpful. It's sort of general (like explaining what a third culture kid is), but a really good start on research for parents raising children overseas.
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The study of children who grow up moving from one foreign country to another adds new dimensions to the field of child psychology. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
international school teachers, family culture shock, local international school, traveling child, third culture kids, mobile children, reverse culture shock, parents raising children, foreign postings, sure your children, international schools
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Third World, Hong Kong, United States, International School of Beijing, New York, Taipei American School
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