Childhood Shame: How It Shapes Our World
We can all remember events in our childhood where we felt shame and those memories linger. You can see children being shamed every day on the streets of any town or city...
A Sense Of Humour Helps In Enforced Isolation
I come from a country where the 'stiff upper lip' and 'wartime spirit' are very much part of the national psyche...
The Week That Was: Notes From Forced Isolation
I work from home and even under the best of conditions, rarely go out apart from the one day I call my weekend... usually Saturday. Then I either go walking…
Positive Discipline : The importance of autonomy for children
As children grow older, they like to explore and push boundaries. What they are looking for is a sense of autonomy and self-confidence, an important cog in the wheel of development...
Punishment is not Discipline (Part 2) Considerations
When my daughter who is now 30 started crawling, we attended as a couple some parenting classes. This was supplemented by visits from the seminar leader to consolidate the theory in practice...
Punishment is not Discipline (Part 1)
The first weeks of a baby's life can be gruelling and tiring for the new parents. Some parents can be completely overwhelmed with this new life that is suddenly thrust upon them...
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