Raising Global Nomads: Parenting Abroad in an On-Demand World

This is fantastic for families that move! It makes sense, and could possibly replace a counselor in regards to emotional problems due to relocation. The book helps me understand my confusion growing up and moving, as well as help my kids understand themselves better while we are a Foreign Service family, uprooting ourselves frequently.Thank you to the author! I had ordered two by mistake but chose to keep the extra copy as a gift to a friend. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

I am an expat coach and have been reading anything I can put my hands on regarding third culture kids or expats. This is book is less theoretical than others and more practical.

I was disappointed with this book and stopped reading it early on when the author advocates a form of lying to your children in order to help them with culture shock. After reading that I immediately returned this book to Amazon and started searching for other books on re-entry and culture shock.

Although this book does contain some useful information, I was generally disappointed. While the author advocates an approach to raising children abroad that seems to have worked for her family, her own biases clearly shine through. The book seems to have been written with a very particular type of expat in mind -- a woman who takes a very traditional gender role in following her husband's career abroad and whose family is quite financially well-off. She actively discourages women from trying to find work or pursue their own careers while abroad with children, and she dismisses "angry feminists" for having taking issue with such statements in her previous books. She speaks only in passing to cross-cultural couples or couples who may value more egality in their relationships. As a therapist who specializes in working with expats, I was very hopeful that this book would prove to be a good resource for my clients, but I don't think I could really recommend it after all.

Some authors are coming into your life and will never go. Robin Pascoe is part of them with her book « Raising Global Nomads. Parenting Abroad in an on-Demand World ».In the tradition of Dave Pollock and Ruth E. Van Reken, Robin Pascoe examines all the issues about family expatriation in a global and ever changing world. She studies in a systematic way the steps that expatriated families encounter, i.e. the announcement of the departure to an unknown country, the settling, the search of the school, the health abroad, the repatriation to the (unknown) home country, etc. ...But Robin Pascoe's book is much more than a simple guide for expatriate families and their children. On the basis of her own experience (she is the spouse of a Canadian diplomat and lived in China, South Korea and Singapour) and numerous testimonials scattered with humor and perceptiveness all around her book, the author give smart and practical advice in order to be better prepared to the challenge of parenting abroad and in a context of recurring expatriation.The positive aspect of this book is also the contributions of two expat experts. Lois J. Bushong deals with the too often taboo topic of expatriate families' mental health (depression, drug, alcohol, divorce, etc. ...). Barbara F. Shaetti writes about TCK's identity development. She gives solutions to parents in order to tackle this step with serenity.« Raising Global Nomads » is then a comprehensive, useful, lively and exiting book. A must read without moderation! Finding Your Feet in Chicago - the essential guide for expat families

Perhaps no life decision is so wrought with uncertainty and apprehension as the one to relocate your children overseas, whether temporarily for an overseas assignment, sabbatical or extended world travel or permanently as emigrants. Will we be damaging them? Will they hate us? Will they suffer academically, personally, emotionally, physically? These are big questions, and before Robin Pascoe's wonderful new book 'Raising Global Nomads', there were few answers.Pascoe takes us on a wonderful, humourous and above all intensely informative journey with her family, and yours. Every overseas family will instantly see themselves in Pascoe's often moving description of her family's trials and tribulations in adapting to life abroad. Workaholic spouse caught in a pressure cooker? Insane academic standards -- in kindergarten? Worries about safety, hygiene, friends, family, communication -- for everybody? Pascoe has an answer, and a calming and reassuring word, for them all. She also takes a clear and accurate look at 'parenting abroad in an on-demand world', assessing the impact of digital and virtual living on expatriate life.In her 25 years as a foreign service spouse, journalist Pascoe moved her family a dozen times to destinations as diverse as Bangkok and Seoul, New York and Beijing, and found the toughest move of all was 'back home' to her native Canada. Pascoe generously shares not only her own experiences, but also the results of her extensive research into parenting abroad, including interviews and contributions from psychologists, sociologists, academics, consultants and relocation specialists.If you make only one pre-departure, or pre-repatriation, purchase, let it be this book. Make sure your teenagers read it, your children's teachers, your spouse, the family's employers and above all their HR department. And keep it under your pillow.....

I am an American expat with 3 small children(married to an ATCK (adult third culture kid) who grew up overseas) on our first international assignment. I have been in Europe for 6 months and as I read the book I was simultaneously crying and laughing as I saw my life reflected in her writing. Some good words of wisdom. I will be sure to buy her book on "re-entry" when we move back to our home country.

Reading this before and during our expatriation to Canada was a life-saver.It's as if a friend who'd "been there" was gently telling us which mistakes to avoid and which tips to go by. And her philosophy of raising kids does resonate with us. Fantastically useful book.