ACEs affect children in the form of mental & physical health issues as adults. Expat Children (TCKs) experience ACEs too with long-term repercussions. But there are a number of things parents and other caretakers can do to mitigate the adverse effects.
Much has been written about repatriation, how difficult it can be and what we can do to ease the transition "back home". But most research and anecdotes is on adults. After watching our children struggle, adjust, settle a bit and struggle again I dug deeper into children's experiences of returning to their passport country. I wrote up the initial results, including suggestions for parents, in a guest blog for…