Many moms get all wrapped up in competing with each other whose baby/3 year-old/10 year-old/25 year-old does what at an earlier age…I have been working with kids pretty much all my life and from experience I know that they all develop at their own pace. They will do things when they are ready. We need [...]
Archive for the ‘Thoughts’ Category
Let kids be themselves, as opposed to trying to mold them into who you want them to be
Posted in Books, Coaching, Life, Raising a multilingual child, Ski School, Thoughts, tagged baby, children, Children First, Coaching, coaching kids, family, Life, multilingual, multiple languages, parenting, Penelope Leach, your children are not your children on March 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Cheakamus Crossing
Posted in Life, Thoughts, traveling with baby, tagged Athlete's Village, Cheakamus Crossing, family, Life, little time, moving on March 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Here is an email I wrote to a friend, perfectly demonstrating how much is going on and how little time I have: “I am sorry I haven’t contacted you in such a long time…we’ve been so busy: we sold our place, moving out May 1st, don’t really know where we are going, yet…
Paralympics
Posted in Thoughts, Whistler, Whistler 2010 Olympics, tagged 2010 Whistler Paralympics, Olympics, Paralympics on March 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Paralympics have come and gone…quietly, I might add, which is a bit sad…While there was lots of live footage of the Olympics on ctv.ca to watch over the two weeks of the Olympics, we have NOT been able to watch any events of the Paralympics on the net. To me the Paralympians are more [...]
Interesting Books on Parenting
Posted in Books, Daycare, Education, Life, Thoughts, tagged children, Children First, family, kids, Linda Eyre, Penelope Leach, Richard Eyre, teaching your children values, values on March 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Children First: What Society Must Do – and Is Not Doing – for Children Today by Penelope Leach Teaching Your Children Values by Linda and Richard Eyre
Children see. Children do.
Posted in Coaching, Education, Life, Thoughts on March 2, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A powerful video that speaks for itself: Children see. Children do.
I love my daugher! I love the person she is!
Posted in Daycare, Life, Thoughts, tagged child personality, children, Daycare, family, kids, negotiating with toddlers, parenting on February 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It has been so nice to see the sun all week this week, which means it’s more fun to spend time outside…We visited a friend and fellow mom this morning. I used to babysit her little girl, F., for four months starting when our daughters were 10 months old (the girls are 2 weeks apart). [...]
Interesting Hungarian article on kids and school
Posted in Education, Hungary, Life, Thoughts, tagged children, children and schools, family, school, Tamas Vekerdy on February 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My Dad sent me a really interesting Hungarian article on kids and school, written by a Hungarian child psychologist, Tamas Vekerdy. It states that schools were designed without the kids in mind, and school actually makes kids sick… Here are some of the reasons – remember, it’s Hungary specific, so some of it might be [...]
Interesting Presentation on the “H1N1″ flu
Posted in Life, Thoughts, tagged H1N1, Teresa Forcades, vaccine on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting video on the background of our ever popular “Swine Flu”… First part of video (after that just click on the rest):
Exams and the possible brainwashing affect of schools
Posted in Education, Life, Thoughts, tagged Education, exams, Grade school, history, school, think outside the box on November 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My Dad used to have a great saying about exams: “Think about what you know, instead of worrying about what you don’t. You don’t have to be good at exams. Just be good at LIFE.” Sometimes it’s better to improvise in certain situations, than know “what the book says”. In some instances it can be another [...]
Breathe – How changing your energy inside can help you solve challenging situations
Posted in Coaching, Life, Our days with our daughter, Raising a multilingual child, Thoughts, tagged adhd, children, Coaching, coaching kids, coaching situations, energy, energy flow, family, parenting, the art of disciplining children on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Below I describe three independent circumstances where kids taught me about the power I have over my energy inside (one babysitting and two coaching situations): 1. I was babysitting I. and her little friend F. For some reason after their naps both girls ended up somehow conjuring up a cranky environment while I was doing [...]
