Meet Sammy the snail, a third culture kid!

Here are some of Sammy's tips if you are moving overseas:

1.  Keep family traditions alive (like celebrating Sinterklaas?)
2. Bring soms familiar items from your home and put them in your new home.
3. Create a special album or a box with memories and add new things as you go along. Then when you look at it you can remember all the great times.
4. Stay in touch with old friends. Email is a good idea or you can also send a parcel.

Sammy hopes you have a great move! 

Do you want to know more about Sammy? In an earlier post called Global Nomads on the move part 2 I wrote about Helen Maffini's book called Sammy's Next Move. Helen was a third culture kid and she has lived and worked in 11 countries. Helen is a Canadian/British educational consultant who is currently living in Australia. 

Want to read more?

Global Nomads on the move it includes the short film MOVE, worth watching.
Libby Stephens explains what third culture kids are.
Children of the World: where are your roots?
Aga Magdolen's film "Les Passagers"
New book "Emotional Resilience and the expat child"by Julia Simens 

Do you have tips when moving with children? If you were a third culture kid, do you have memories of your moves? Any advice?

Twitter update week 31: news on third culture kids (TCKs)

Resource for multicultural parents & kids Bringing Up Children Bilingually: http://bit.ly/qTN53e

The story of a Third Culture kid (TCK) feeling foreign when she is not a racial minority "a stranger in my own skin"  http://t.co/XNYK7yO

All about Third Culture Kids (TCKs) starting careers http://t.co/ui8v2es 

Jo Parfitt interviewed Helen Maffini, author of  the children's storybook Sammy’s Next Move (written by an adult TCK for TCKs): http://bit.ly/rb6jxC

Building resilience in children&teens: Giving your children Roots and Wings! http://t.co/kyk3CpS 

Thandie Newton: Embracing otherness, embracing myself, a Video TED.com http://t.co/NvH1Wey

Have you found your story? Inspiration from the stage to the page http://t.co/gCICwv4 hear all about food: the Food Inspirer!

Jonathan Griffiths and Marion Knell discuss re-entry as it affects the entire family. http://bit.ly/pNoH6e

The End of Expatriate Life Leads to Re-Entry Shock http://ow.ly/4xaf1

Andrea Expat July Feature: Emotional Resilience & the expat child http://bit.ly/nO8OaY

Calling all Expats/Repats - here's a fun way to define "where's home?" Families in Global Transition are producing a cookbook http://www.figt.org 

10 ways to cope with any transition by Julia Simens: http://t.co/QfcSCLG 

Je puber veilig laten opgroeien in het buitenland http://t.co/Avg4Krp artikel van RNW