…home into school is that they would lose their sense of feeling at home with their family. Every child needs a home – that is, a relational place of safety,…
…walls, roof, to the kitchen sink. Phrases such as ‘home address,’ ‘home base,’ or ‘home row’ all point to the where can orient ourselves to and from. I am more…
…your undivided attention and make time to just be together Don’t judge how your child is feeling, and don’t act defensively about what they are telling you, or try to…
…to make a choice over how their children should be educated. It isn’t hard to understand that children need to go to school for the economy to recover or that…
…at 10 a.m. and that you still have a whole day to get through. For the immature and/or over-reactive child, or even for a well-behaved child, this is very distressing….
…in their agenda. Let’s consider how it must make a child feel to be bringing home a “red face” to Mom or Dad. None of us likes to disappoint those…
…so that the desire to be known and understood creates the yearning to share what is within. When we share our feelings the relationship deepens and we feel at home…
…it is a plant attached to the soil, fungus attached to a tree, electrons attached to the atomic nucleus, our moon attached to the earth, or humans attached to each…
…whether you are navigating “teaching” at school or at home, I’d like to suggest a few developmental reminders to keep things in perspective. But first, a story about frogs and…
…home; we could keep in touch with her to make sure she felt that we were there to help; we could find ways to honour her love for her son….