Recently, I have connected with some childhood friends, and have been reminded of my first love. It was interesting because I didn’t remember much about it until friends and I reminisced over stories. Songs, like signposts, directed my thoughts to places traversed lifetimes ago. I was only 13 years old in middle school, and this [...]
Step-parents play an important role in the lives of children. However, their identity as “parents” is frequently complicated and defined by a common fear and misconception: A step-parent can never replace a biological parent and is therefore ill-equipped to parent their step-child. As someone who grew up with two brothers, one who was step-parented by [...]
Last night I returned from Cairo, a city still in turmoil. TV screens across the city broadcast live feeds from Tahrir Square and other hotspots. Angry chants fill the air wherever you go including the airport lounges at Cairo International Airport. Young, old, Egyptian or foreigner – you simply cannot escape the anger in Egypt. [...]
The topic around food and children comes up very often. For example, I know many parents who feel very hopeless and start arranging their lives around food. While I totally understand this, because I was one of them too, I now see that my own attachments and beliefs about food determined my relationship with my [...]
As promised, I would like to talk more about the Achuars, an Amazonian tribe in Ecuador, which I met on a trip I took with my family this summer. We travelled in a nine-seater airplane about an hour into the Rainforest until we landed in a hand carved airstrip. Ten families lived in that specific [...]
After my TEDxDubai talk last year, Johan and I had the privilege to speak at TEDxSantaCruz in June. I must admit it was an incredible experience. It was about Trust. Please feel free to share it with your friends on Facebook and Twitter, but mostly ENJOY it. Here is the video. Gonan and Johan Premfors [...]