Contentment is defined as “resting satisfied, with ease of mind.”  Doesn’t that sound lovely? Happiness flows naturally when we are contented. With contentment you can live gloriously, even magnificently!! but its not easy in a world constantly peddling something new you have to achieve. These achievements are supposedly a gate we have to go through […]

SMART PARENT STRATEGIES    Children are still multi-sensory and naturally averse to Monotony. This is a good thing! We can harness this innate capacity to help make homework a safer, more enjoyable space. Here are some tactics that help to create a Healing Homework space for small children:     Decrease after-school run-around. Today, the […]

CREATING THE SUB-WORLD The most important thing about creating the homework space is the Gestalt. The Gestalt is the whole experience, including the feeling state and the vibe. A bad vibe gives us a negative association; with a good vibe we develop positive association. We have all sat around a coffee table where the vibe […]

STRENGTHENING THE BOW Part 2: A SAFE LEARNING SUB-WORLD If your child is to develop strong adult learning capacity it is important that it is not snapped while their learning string is young. You can protect the bow of your child’s intelligence. One of the biggest challenges to strengthening the bow is that children quickly […]

THE POWER OF REVOLUTION Mothers often feel powerless and worthless in a society that values power and wealth. Consider these closing comments made by the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia in his address to the rich and powerful at the Banking & Wealth Summit: “In the end, though, you can’t legislate for culture […]

“A rich child often sits in a poor mother’s lap.”   This Danish proverb can help us think about the assumptions behind our decisions. Tibetan Khampa people are materially poor. Does that mean the nomadic Khampa child is poorer than the Western child? Materially? They have fresh air, the freedom to move and explore and […]

New Year Resolutions rely on us focusing on what we haven’t yet done. Too often there isn’t enough emphasis on the…YET.   So often the act of setting resolutions becomes the baton of guilt with which we beat ourselves about the year that has passed – hoping to self flagellate into glorious perfection in the […]

When the dog bites… Poor old Julie Andrews. She had to play a singing nanny AND a singing nun. Its amazing her sex life ever got off the ground. She did have a point though. There ARE days where the dog bites (or worse, your dog bites someone else!), you get a speeding ticket and […]

4 Quick Tips to keep Christmas sane! Christmas is one time of the year where we ALL are given permission to celebrate. We decorate our grey cities and, for a while, make our sensible world into a fairyland. This puts us into a lovely space for possibility. Few people (except the insane) discuss their corporation’s […]

      When Dolly Parton was asked by a smart alec reporter how she felt about being called a dumb blonde she replied, “I don’t mind because I know I’m not dumb and I know I’m not blonde!”   That was such a kick-ass way to say, “I don’t care about your shallow ideas!” […]