…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…
…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…
…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 –…
…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…
…amount of adults – they are badly in need of well-spelled-out scripts*. These scripts become the main challenge of parents – translating an alarming world into easy-to-follow scripts that each particular…
…a constant stream of friends, information and entertainment. While our kids emerge as savvy inhabitants of this digital world, parents are left to monitor, negotiate, and police their child’s online…