“All that we ourselves are has been made by the child, by the child we were in the first two years of our lives.” Maria Montessori Elwyn loves to run…. [Continue Reading]
Tag: Kids
Changing the world one pony, and child, at a time
It’s hard to teach old dogs new tricks, right? Even more so if there’s big odds stacked against you. Odds like culture, religion, superstition, tradition, poor education and poverty. Horses… [Continue Reading]
When the going gets tough, the tough get cooking (Coronavirus blog-story #2)
“I told you something like this would happen!” Ayu whispered to her colleagues. One of her friends shushed her. It wasn’t in their culture to question or complain or even… [Continue Reading]
This Ain’t No Walk In The Park (Coronavirus blog-story #1)
Dylan stomped his feet and wriggled so much that Sharon took twice as long as normal to put his sandals on. “Wait up little man, please stop moving,” she pleaded…. [Continue Reading]
There’s no place like home… is there
Recently my son expressed disappointment that he has no childhood home, to return home to. He was lamenting the fallout from the lack of stability he experienced in his childhood…. [Continue Reading]
Childhood freedoms
Forty years ago. One October, when I was six, my family left Holland and arrived in Australia, a land of salty air and big skies, plenty of space and warm… [Continue Reading]