
…was expecting me, and silently praying that I would be able to know what I needed to do, I could hear the teacher talking about ‘that parent.’ ‘That parent doesn’t…

…our own minds that I will dearly miss. It is her voice in my head sometimes in remembering her proclamation that, “The problem with alpha caretakers is you don’t say…

…find the edge of it. In the melancholy of a song, on the pages of my journal, in a piece of art, in the shade of a tree, in the…

…in our children’s lives. This is becoming a real dilemma because it turns out that play is actually a necessary ingredient for development. It is through play that our ability…

…I didn’t fit so I had to leave parts out. But what parts should I keep? What parts should I hide? What parts were really me? Where did I belong?…

…Let me give you a synopsis in case you haven’t read it yet (but I do encourage you to read it yourself as the illustrations are beautiful and I am…

…warmth, I think about how far we’ve come… I reflect back on the Level I Intensive: Making Sense of Children with Dr. Neufeld in Montreal, summer 2005… I was deeply…

…become fully who they are. This same sentiment is sometimes represented imagistically: we are helping them grow both roots and wings. Some parents find it natural to extend the invitation…