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 [...]
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 [...]
This spring we have a number of Trust and Parentology workshops planned around the globe! To learn more about our workshops, click here. To register, click here. Dubai Trust Workshop (May 5-7) Barcelona Parentology Workshop (May 20-22) Dubai Parentology Workshop (May 26-28) Toronto Parentology Workshop (June 3-5) London Parentology Workshop (June 17-19) -The Parentology Team [...]
A friend of mine recently asked me if I think people can become better parents by reading parenting books and blogs. My mind immediately jumped to an African saying told to me long ago—“Information is only a rumor unless it is in your body”. While there are certainly a number of amazing parenting books and [...]
How much of your time with your children is spent worrying about other obligations? When we are getting our children ready for school in the morning, but also fretting about work, or imagining how a meeting will proceed, or planning the next event, we are not being present with our children. The same is true [...]
We often hold onto a lot of assumptions about our children, based on old stories of how they once were. As parents we must understand and accept that our kids are growing and changing every day and that they will continue to do so into adulthood. Therefore, if we choose to hold our children in [...]