Though parents may not fully understand what their TCKs will experience, [Lauren’s] words will help you gain understanding and prepare you to empathize when struggle arises.
Being a TCK means I get to choose where I’m from. It means I get to choose who and what are part of my home, and it means that can change on a daily basis. It means my home can be anywhere and everywhere.
They say home is where the heart is, or home is where the people we love are, but I think home, for me and many other TCKs, is wherever we are at the moment.
The feeling of being houseless is real, and raw, and hard, and yet I didn’t feel this way in Greece. Yes, it was a strange new country with unfamiliar places and faces, but I felt more at home in Greece than I had back in my passport country of Canada all year...