Cross Cultural Kids

Christine interviews Ruth Van Reken, member care expert and world-renowned co-author with Dave Pollock of bestseller ‘Third Culture Kids’.

Ruth discusses her childhood as a TCK – ‘Third Culture Kid’ and how she did not come to terms with the impact on her life until adulthood. It was her own book “Letters Never Sent” written about a decade earlier that had first raised awareness of the unresolved grief and loss carried by many missionary kids into their adult years. As she shares in this interview, she didn’t set out to write a book – she was journalling to process her own feelings about the past. But in the process she succeeded in touching a deep chord with many and has continued to do so in her subsequent work.

>>>Watch the Interview here.