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...
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Wild Motherhood
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 Good News and the Bad News of Why Learning Cannot be Forced. 109.
You cannot force someone to learn. You can threaten them, you can punish them, you can force them to sit still and listen (or pretend to...
Transformational Teaching Tools: Learning Through Gaming. 105
“After school, kids are devouring new information, concepts, and skills every day, and, like it or not, they’re doing it controller in...
Education with Passion for a Digital Generation. 104
Standardized tests and archaic curricular that must be rushed through in a matter of months, are filling up the classrooms. At the same...
Radical Unschooling: Education Outside The Box. 101
“Rules in the absence of principle are often found to be irrelevant by children. Principles lived fully make rules unnecessary.” —Karen...
Are You Supporting Your Child To Reach Their Full Potential? 99
She said what most parents say when asked about the quality of their child’s school: “Well, it seems good.” Like most parents she has...
Imagine A Day in the Life of Your Child. 95
Working as a teacher I’ve come to realize that parents hold the key to changing the education system. Here’s why: Parents, unlike...
Why Smaller Classes are Essential for The Success and Well-Being of Your Child. 94
I will begin by sharing recent experiences I had within teaching here in Sweden to exemplify how grave this problem is and how it can be...
Emancipated Learning and the Self-Empowered Student. 93
Since I started working as a teacher, I noticed how demotivated the older students were and how the ‘spark of life’ that is so prominent...
How Much Reality Can a Child Handle? 87
I am continuing here from a series of blog-posts that I wrote about introducing children to real-life issues. I Know the World. Do You?...
A Political Awakening of the Young Generation or a Return to 1950’s Survival Strategies? DAY 6
On February 12. 2014 a British mother Rachel Ragg published an article about the subject in the Daily Mail. Ragg talks about how she is...
What I have Learned About Education from Teaching: DAY 67
In this post I am going to review the last year I have worked as a teacher in terms of what I have learned from teaching. Because as I...
What You Should Ask Yourself About Why You Go to Work Every Day: DAY 66
Today I am taking inventory and within that re-committing myself to the work that I am doing as a teacher – with a new starting-point and...
What Children Have Taught Me about Teaching: DAY 65
In this blog post I am continuing with the series about communicating with children based on my experiences as a teacher. Here are the...
What We Can Learn From How Children See The World: DAY 64
At the moment I am busy doing a newspaper project with all of my studentsfrom the 1. To the 9. Grade (ages 6 – 16). Within this project,...
How do You Speak With Children? DAY 63
For the purpose of this blog-post I found an article titled “Scientific Studies Explain the Best Ways to Talk to Children” about how to...
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