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10-03-2006, 09:15 PM
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Anyone still out there?
Just looking to see if anyone is still looking at this thread...actually the first time I've ever noticed this forum and I've been a member of adoption.com for quite some time. Would be interested in hearing from folks on here!
Shannon
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10-15-2006, 05:01 PM
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I've looked at it a few times, but there are rarely messges.
Emily
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10-19-2006, 01:13 PM
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I'd love to be involved in some discussions here. I've always wished I'd completely picked up the language when my parents moved overseas, but I was just too old (over ten) to pick it up easily and wasn't motivated enough to work on it enough. I still speak Hungarian, but I'll never be completely fluent even though I'm trying to keep what I have.
It's just so natural for small children to learn languages, I'm facinated by the "how" language developes in children in the first 6-7 seven years of life. There are stages I've found in my experience of different parts coming easily even when children are too old for automatic pick up of a language.
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TCK"s or Third Culture Kids are difined as "[A] person who has spent a significant part of his or her developmental years outside the parents' culture. The third culture kid builds relationships to all of the cultures, while not having full ownership in any. Although elements from each culture are assimilated into the third culture kid's life experience, the sense of belonging is in relationship to others of the same background." How being a TCK relates to my desire to adopt some day: I grew up an international child, and while the walls between country and race mean less to me than most, I grew up with an understanding of the influence of clashing cultures that is hard to explain to someone who exists in solely one culture. God has given me the gift of experiences to fuel my desire for international adoption and to understand an internationally adopted child's world.
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