(Foreword by Steve Gaukroger) More and more families raise their children abroad. This book helps these parents take their kids through the awkward and frustrating third-culture kid moments.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Looking for answers to your questions about overseas living? Well, keep on looking...,
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This review is from: Families on the Move (Paperback)
I am a missionary who has travelled extensively and have lived overseas for over 10 years now. I have a family of my own with two small children as well as work with 5 other families who also have children of various ages and one being an interracial/intercultural marriage. I bought this book as I thought it might be good for our resource library. After reading it I advise you to pass on this one and look for something better -- more well-written, more complete, more helpful.
Overall, I found it to be poorly organized and written -- I had to force myself to finish it. It makes a lot of over-generalizations about 3rd-culture families and their experiences. Many of the specific examples given seem to be a forced fit to the point the author is trying to make. Perhaps the most troublesome aspect of the book is the author's constant question-asking -- questions to which answers are not given. Granted the questions could be useful if someone wishes to use them as a guideline and do some investigation in order to find answers. However, I imagine most people who would buy this book would do so because they were facing a move overseas and would prefer a book that answered more of the questions in its own text. In fact, they'd probably buy this book because they already have the same questions the author posits. Therefore the author's method would prove to be redundant for them at best...serve to reinforce their fears of the unknown at worst (i.e., if even this 'expert' doesn't know the answers to these questions...). Overall, it seems that this is a person with some experience in the subject matter who just decided to sit down one day and begin to whip out a book based on the questions that occurred to her as she wrote. Do yourself a favor and find a more thorough book that employs some good investigative journalism to back up its information and actually answers some of those questions.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good overview geared towards families from pre-to-post field,
This review is from: Families on the Move (Paperback)
My husband and I have been in full-time Christian ministry for 18 years now with nearly 10 years overseas, and raising 4 resilient MKs who are a bit unorthodox (to some) but who still love Jesus. Having little prep help from our sending church or our previous organisation, God led us into working with leadership training and preparing of Australian missionary families who serve oveseas in parts of Asia, Africa & South America, as well as helping returning missionary families with re-entry. I WISH I had known of this book in our early days. Most resources, sad to say, tend to be American with a very American bent and little consideration to other Western cultures sending out. Marion's book written from both an American AND a UK understanding, helps us communicate to our trainees in a way they can relate. It deals with most issues missionary families face with a down-to-earth helpful honesty that is easy to read and doesn't come across as "having all the answers"--for we serve a creative God who likes to do things different on each of our individualized journeys of service for Him.
Worth the investment.
4.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Families on the Move (Paperback)
This has been a nice resource to spur on conversation between our 11 and 13 year old boys as we prepare for a move overseas. It is written to parents and has some interesting points to consider that I had not thought about. We are about half-way though and reading a small portion each day to be able to talk about anticipation of the changes and feelings that we may have with such a big move. Although this author is from Britain and uses examples in cultural differences from that perspective it is easily understandable and translated to our own experience.
Highlights of this book: Cartoon pictures depicting awkward/humorous situations of living overseas Comments of real TCKs in a wide age range A good, honest, look at both the positives and negatives of a cross cultural move.
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