Category: Children and Adolescents

I want to start by saying that knowing things is important. Researching, reading and discussing material in pursuit of information is great. But I share the same nuisance about the extremities that exist on the topic of parenting. It is … Read more

My son says I worry too much about him, but I do it out of love. I remember when I was young my grandmother and my mother reiterating this phrase ad eternum. “Don’t climb that tree”. “Don’t go to the … Read more

Our opportunities to play as children have influenced and shaped the capacity we have as adults to navigate our own lives. Play has influenced our own creative capacities and problem solving abilities. What kind of tools do we want our … Read more

Did you ever feel like you’re the only one who’s different? Then it’s easy to imagine that most kids also feel like that sometimes. And some children feel like that a lot because other kids notice the difference and point … Read more

“Love, perhaps, is the ability to see more deeply, to understand the pain in the lives of those children that fill your classrooms, and know that love heals their wounds when all else has failed”.

My hope, as an educator … Read more

It’s 5 p.m. and I am really tired after a whole day at work. Yet I know that there is still one more family I need to see. I hear a knock on the office door and I see the … Read more

We are all so popular now, so connected. ‘Social networking’ is the new buzzword. New verbs have seeped into our day to day language – we blog, we skype and tweet our thoughts in fewer than 140 characters. We post … Read more

In a grandchild-grandparent relationship, the grandparent is usually seen as the one who can teach, by sharing knowledge and life experiences. But that may not always be true. There are plenty of things that grandparents can learn from communication and … Read more

The news about a pregnancy usually brings a lot of joy into a newly created family.  It also means that the roles within a family setting are going to change. It involves not only new  parent-baby relationships but also it … Read more

It is interesting for me that when I explain this to parents; they seem to digest it very well. Yet, I frequently meet a “however”.   It is not uncommon for parents to feel that their child’s behaviour is uniquely explosive. … Read more