Learning to Trust Yourself as a Parent
As modern parents, we want answers. Preferably all the answers, in a book, from the moment our child is conceived. We were raised with...
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Wild Motherhood
The Impending Collapse of The School System as We Know it
I have worked as a teacher for over 15 years, working with both with children and adults, in private as well as in public schools. As an...
Children Systematically Traumatized by being Left in the Arms of Strangers – And What You can
Every single day I read stories from mothers who desperately seek support with how to handle he painstaking process of having to leave...
A MOTHER’S LIBERATION HANDBOOK
Someone asked me yesterday what it is like to be on maternity leave. I said: “It is a huge paradox.” It is the biggest privilege and the...
Why I Will Not Create an EMOTIONAL Bond with my Child – and What I’m Doing Instead. 128
From the moment my daughter was born, I knew that I would be walking a process of letting her go. I knew that she is, as the poet Kahlil...
The Name I Gave My Daughter and What It Means to Me. 127
When my partner and I set off to pick a name for the baby we had on the way, we did as most couples do, and started gathering a list of...
Why Adults Find it Boring To Play with Children (And what you can do about it). 126
Why do adults often find it boring to play with children, sometimes to the point of feeling physically uncomfortable? Is there a way for...
Why We Can’t Teach Children Values that aren’t Our Own. 125
You very often hear adults speaking about how important it is to teach children values like ‘kindness’, ‘respect’, ‘empathy’ or...
Giving Your Child the Best Start in Life when the Odds are stacked Against You. 124
Being pregnant with your first child, you’d think that it would be a joyous time to be thinking about baby names while preparing to...
A New Journey has Begun. 123
For the past couple of months I have taken a rather long hiatus from blogging. The reason is that I have been suffering from severe...
Children: The Debt Burden of Society or Life’s Unleashed Potential? 122
The other day while driving, I was listening to a radio program discussing young people taking a ‘gap year’ off between high school and...
The Future of Education: The Potential, Passion and Purpose of the Self-Directed Learner. 121
You are a unique being. There is no one in the world that is exactly like you, who has the exact skill-set or way of going about things...
Redefining Education – New Live Show on YouTube with Joao Jesus and Anna Brix Thomsen
Joao Jesus from Life Educators and Anna Brix Thomsen from A Teacher’s Journey to Life are the hosts of a new series of live conversations...
If Children Could Vote. 120.
“I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions – a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education...
Deschooling Humanity to Save the World. 119
“Institutional wisdom tells us that children need school. Institutional wisdom tells us that children learn in school. But this...
Playing the Long Game in your Child’s Upbringing. 118
As adults, and as parents in particular, we tend to focus on ‘short-term results’ when it comes to our kids. But what is seldom...
What Keeps Us from Changing the World? 117
The world as we know it is at a crossroads, a crossroads where the old is colliding with the new, where past generations feebly cling...
How do you raise a child? 116
How do you raise a child? My answer: you don’t. Have a look at how a child learns to crawl, stand and walk. The child does that on its...
What is a Child? 115
If I were to illustrate what it is like to be a child in an adult world, it would be an image of being surrounded by lots and lots of...
How Sudbury Schools Challenges Traditional Perspectives on Children and Childhood. 114
“If you observe children learning in their first few years of life, you can see that they can and do learn on their own – we leave them...
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