Categorie: Connected development
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That some children develop extremely fast is perfectly normal!
Just as the light of life shines into your eyes, you lift your head and look at the world in wonder. You want to see, smell, hear, feel, taste, experience everything. You feel, smell, hear, taste, and/or experience everything more intensely than many other children. You go fast, faster than the world around you. While…
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A child who is allowed to develop in connection learns to live connected
Giving children the opportunity to develop in a connected way not only strengthens their intrinsic motivation but also strengthens the bond between you and your child. Connection with you as a mother and as a father is the foundation that gives your child the confidence to walk their own path (Tao) in balance (Yin &…
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Your child learns to understand by doing
Knowledge sticks through doing. Understanding comes with doing. While a child observes the world around him, the desire to do and be able to do himself also grows. The child wants to reach for what interests him. A child wants to understand what his mother is saying. He hits and reaches for objects. He tries…
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Knowledge and skills without resilience have no value
The knowledge and skills you acquire without resilience have no value. If you only stay standing when the sun is shining, what use is all the knowledge and skills you have made your own along the way to adulthood and beyond? Just as you do not always walk around with a smile on your face,…
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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…