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Children Hyper-Attuned? Read this.
This is the next part in a series, which began here: Preventing Our Children From Developing Demons (And Healing Our Own). Our eldest son, in particular, was showing behaviours of hyper-attunement to the needs of others and showing other behaviours in … Continue reading
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Parents: 5 Key Tasks of Parenting
This post is part two of a series, which begins here: Preventing Our Children From Developing Demons (And Healing Our Own), in which I look at the ideas outlined in the book, Healing Developmental Trauma by Laurence Helller, PhD and … Continue reading
Preventing Our Children From Developing Demons (And Healing Our Own)
The book I am reading at the moment has got me inspired and excited. It’s called Healing Developmental Trauma by Laurence Heller, PhD and Aline LaPierre PsyD. If you’re interested in working on your demons it’s definitely a recommended read. For … Continue reading
Kids who don’t Talk about School
One of the most interesting things I have discovered about the human brain is that consciousness is really, really hard work. We often think we are making conscious decisions but the reality is the decision making process takes place in … Continue reading
Because Play is the Work of Childhood!
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Parents: Good Games go Bad – It’s not the End of the World!
This morning our two youngest boys were playing together. Mr Owl, who is seven, was pushing Mr Butterfly, who is two, on the swing. Then he began to twist the swing ropes and Mr B laughed his head off as … Continue reading
The Importance of Seeing People – REALLY Seeing Them
When I realised how much I struggled with eye-contact, about six years-ago, it has been a favourite experiment of mine to see how well other people are doing. The results, of my unmoderated experiment, are not good. Most people seem to have … Continue reading
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Tagged behaviour, bitchy, children, eye-contact, mean girls, random acts of kindness, tough guys, violence
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Learning Can be Easy Parents Just Have to…
…butt out. What many people seem to misunderstand is that there is intense concentration and phenomenal learning taking place as children make sense of their world for themselves when they are involved in open-ended and undirected play. That means there is … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Home Environment
Tagged children, education, free range, learning, open ended, undirected, unstructured, unsupervised
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Parents: Smart Kids aren’t Always so Smart
Truly loved reading this post, from Carol at ifbyyes. http://ifbyyes.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/why-we-dont-want-our-son-to-think-hes-smart/#comment-6991
Posted in Education, Home Environment
Tagged children, failure, genuis, gifted, hard work, smart, values
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