Dr. Dan Siegel shows us a great way of looking at the minds of our children in his TEDxBlue talk. He also says “the relationships are our life’s blood, as we brush our teeth every morning we do need to brush our brain by learning reflective skills.” Dr. Daniel J. Sigel at TEDxBlue Do we [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Some of you may have noticed already that I have been quiet with my blog posts for a while. There are couple of reasons for that: First, I have been on a journey to the Amazon in Ecuador, visiting a tribe called the Achuars with an Organization called Pachamama Alliance. The experience was so deep that I [...]
How often do you catch yourself thinking, “ok, how can I get my son/daughter to do this chore?” Or promising your child, “if you do this for me, I will get you this treat?” As parents, it is tempting to try to guide our children to be and behave how we want them to. By [...]
Parents whose children have been diagnosed with forms of attention deficit disorder (ADD/ADHD) will be keen to read the recent Los Angeles Times article, “New research fuels skepticism (and questions) about those ADHD diagnoses”. The article points out that a study out of Finland found: It is the can’t-sit-still kids — the stereotype of the “ADHD [...]