Child development

Watch kids playing outside with no rules or coaches to govern their behaviour and you will see the magical unfolding of bodies swinging,…

We were having an animated and excited conversation about the looming birthday of my youngest child. She was about to turn five and we were talking,…

Abandonment, separation, insecurity and isolation. These are experiences that we as a global community are facing. But most sadly it is…

Hapkido, the Way of Harmonious Power, is a dynamic Korean martial art. Benefits of Hapkido Regular practice of…

A review of two books by David Elkind: The Hurried Child and Miseducation – Preschoolers at Risk Living in modern…

Martial arts can be one of the best things a child could do to prepare him or herself for life.…

‘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…

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…

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…

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…