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Child development
Lost Children, Lost Society: Portrait of a post-modern family
Abandonment, separation, insecurity and isolation. These are experiences that we as a global community are facing. But most sadly it is…
Martial Arts; Self Mastery through a Warrior Tradition
Hapkido, the Way of Harmonious Power, is a dynamic Korean martial art.
Benefits of Hapkido
Regular practice of…
The Hurried Child Syndrome
A review of two books by David Elkind: The Hurried Child and Miseducation – Preschoolers at Risk
Living in modern…
Martial Arts: a foundation of life & learning
Martial arts can be one of the best things a child could do to prepare him or herself for life.…
Beastly Bees and Fatal Footwear: The New Perils of Parenting
‘Stop running with that in your mouth or you’ll trip over and die!’ So yelled a mother to her child in a shopping centre last week. Maybe she’d just had way…
Traveling with Tots
Children are wired to move, so when we confine them on an airplane or strap them into their seats in the car, it can feel like a prison to those…
A Call of the Wild – Feel the Trees: A back-to-nature activity
See 'A Call of the Wild'.
Trees are incredible but it’s so easy to take them for granted. Without them, life would be very different — there would be no…
A Call from The Wild: How today’s children need nature and how the future…
I received Richard Louv’s new book the day I received the news that I was to become a father for the first time. The book, Last Child in the…
Weapons of Mass Induction – Plant Power
Published in Kindred 22 as part of Weapons Of Mass Induction
While modern recreation — television and computer games in…
An Unschooling Adventure
Our Family
My name is Nanda. I am married to Hans, and together we have four boys: Rutger, Stijn, Jochem, and Koen. We are a Dutch family…