Q: Why does it take so long for my toddler to learn what’s OK and what isn’t? - Sarah
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Q. It’s embarrassing when my toddler takes playthings from other children. What can I do in these situations? - Megan
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Q: How can I communicate my wishes about caring for my child to significant others without conflict? - Claire
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Q: I have recently had my second baby and my eldest child is finding the disruption to their life challenging. How can I best support them? - Lizzy
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It’s obvious to all of us that future generations are going to need to be versatile, empathetic, independent thinkers, right? We’re bringing them up in a world that’s not working out if human beings want to avoid extinction. (Extreme, I know, but true...) The usual way of doing things is clearly not working.
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Each spring, life renews. The plants in our gardens, the trees around our homes, and everywhere there are signs of the unfurling and unfolding that come with this season of lively renewal.
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What if we could take our focus away from what our children are going to be when they grow up and instead focused on who they are now?
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The purpose of BALANCED BEINGS is to help you find physical and emotional balance through the art of play and self-experimentation – reconnecting with something that’s lost or forgotten, or maybe just a little shaky.
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After all, if we want to teach them anything, it’s that looking after yourself – protecting your physical and mental health – is the most important thing you can ever do.
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Taken from my podcast, this includes a small experiment that may help you deal with the tension and fear that live inside us all at the moment.
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Simply put, if we want our children to be curious about the world, to be strong, self-reliant individuals, we need to give them every opportunity available to explore, to follow their interest and enthusiasm. This requires a supportive environment.
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I've just come home after attending a concert. It was an evening of excellent musical performances, brought together by the spritely energy of 82 year old conductor, Vladimir Ashkenazy. We were treated to Grieg, Mendelsohn and Dvorak - beautifully tuneful, complex and hair-raising stuff.
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As Carl Jung is famous for saying, what you resist persists. If you constantly stop a child from doing something which they're really interested in doing, they will keep trying and keep trying until they manage it, and this causes so much stress.
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Sand has been a part of my life since I was born. From an early age, I have lovely memories of spending family time at the Sand Pit. But it wasn't just an ordinary sand pit. It’s actually a place dearer to my heart than most…
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This is what shaming looks like. This is what we so innocently do to ourselves and, perhaps more importantly, to our children. This is what caused this kind, generous Mum of a sweet-natured toddler to jump up in fright.
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