Categorie: Connected development
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Your child’s development flows through energy
When energy can flow freely in children, their development is optimally supported. Playing, having fun, dancing, singing, building, laughing, moving, and exploring allows energy to flow freely and connects you with yourself. Playing together, having fun with each other, dancing and singing with each other, building with each other, laughing with each other, moving with…
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Playing is connecting
Play creates space. Space to discover, to experiment, to step outside your comfort zone, to look at, understand, and experience things differently than you did before, to push your boundaries. Above all, play brings a lot of pleasure, so as a child you can never get enough of it. Play also creates connection. Connection with…
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We know ourselves and the world only within the frameworks that have been taught to us
We actually know very little. Most of the knowledge about ourselves and the world around us only applies within the cultural and economic frameworks from which we have learned that this is reality. But the industrial reality in which we live has existed for at most about three hundred years. Even the last five years…
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A child is not a tabula rasa
A child is not a tabula rasa. If you offer every child the same knowledge and experiences, it will not result in the same knowledge and behaviour in each child. Every child has a certain genetic inheritance and uniqueness. Therefore, no matter how much you try to put into a child, if he does not…
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Being allowed to feel teaches you that you are valuable
Empathy makes your child resilient. Having the space to fully feel all your feelings without being categorised as right or wrong makes you resilient as a child, as a person. It teaches you to be present in all your facets. It teaches you that you have the space to discover who you are and why…
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Developing in connection is not done only with your mind…
Head and hands are not separate entities. They are part of a larger whole, the body, which is not only limited by our physical body. Every human is also a social group, a society, nature. If we want to do well, we must take responsibility for ourselves in all aspects. What our mind can never…
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Connected children grow up to be connected adults, who are connected to their social and natural environment
For millions of years, we lived in small groups of relatives. We learned to be connected with ourselves, each other, and our natural environment by daily practice. We learned 24/7 to know what we needed, what we as a group needed, what our environment needed to stay connected. We stayed connected with our natural environment…