Category: TCK Essay Series

• What We Learned from A Month of Travelling in Japan with Young Children

  

  In May and June 2026, my family of 4 (2 adults + 2 children, aged 4 and 1) spent a month travelling through Japan (+Hong Kong and Helsinki). We went to a mix of major Japanese cities and chill seaside towns, living in highly residential areas, trying to live as the locals do. The experience…

• The Myth of the Resilient (Third Culture) Kid

  

  It’s mid-morning in Singapore and already the air is throttled with suffocating heat. Just around the corner from the bustle of Orchard Road is a school, its sprawling campus an oasis from the frenzy of the city. Today, school is not in session. The campus is muted, with only the rustling of towering palm fronds…

• Navigating the Third Culture Kid Life

  

  It’s a late autumn afternoon in Hong Kong, the streets grey under relentless sheets of steel-grey clouds. I am 11-years-old, curled up in the backseat of a taxi, my dad’s cellphone pressed hard against one ear as hot tears roll down my cheeks. My world is falling apart and I can’t stop sobbing. I call…