…be interested in exploring a new course that Tamara Strijack has developed based on Dr. Neufeld’s Raising Children in a Digital World video material: Preserving Play in a Digital World….
…trusting ourselves in knowing what’s in our child’s best interests. We’ve bought into the fact that our approach to parenting must fit in, or that our children should act in…
…ferns. Sometimes lessons come from unusual places. This one comes from Aunt Ruth … In my world, this pandemic brought many changes – one of the more welcome ones was…
…in my world. And this was a world that was not about right or wrong, but about expressing the beauty and the heartache and everything in between. A world about…
I was told by some of our Neufeld Institute staff that our newsletter subscribers might appreciate hearing from me at the start of this new year. I usually turtle during…
Since this is our first newsletter of the season and thus my first greeting to our newsletter readers, I think a New Year’s greeting is still appropriate. At least indulge…
…Emotions are something humans share in common with other mammals and are instinctual in nature with chemical and physical activation in the body. As Pascal (17th century) said, “the heart…
…that feels like it is coming undone. There are sometimes too many acts of uncaring for a human heart to bear in today’s ‘connected world’ when self-centered actions dominate –…
…in the same school and have her again in Grade 4 even though my mom’s new marriage had not gone well – there was a divorce and we moved into…
…play is not just a luxury to be indulged in when times are good; it is actually a way back to yourself when times are hard. In the midst of…