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What do children need?
As we approach holidays, when we are likely to spend more time with our children, let us remember the unconditional love they need in order to flourish.
The Rights to be a child
Our families are bombarded by all sorts of images and words at the touch of a button, so it is hard to protect and safeguard our children from inappropriate material, but it is of paramount importance that we do.
Stay Calm
Stay calm! Do not go with the wind-up. Saying no, walking away and REFUSING TO ENGAGE in such confrontations are good ways to deal with the situation.
Developing Respobsibility
Independence, rather than jumping in too quickly with our suggestions or habitually doing things for them which they are perfectly capable of doing themselves. With positive encouragement and praise, they will happily respond to the challenge of growing up.
No time like the present
A child knows when you’re really with him, fully, just as he knows when you’re itching to move away to attend to something else.
Happy Parent – Happy Child
First, it is important that we treat our children as people whose feelings, opinions, desires and questions matter. While we may not always be able to accommodate their preferences, we need to listen and not dismiss them out of hand. Each child is unique and has his or her own way of reasoning, and sometimes fears and worries too.
How can we find calm in our daily life?
Feeling stressed? Rushed? This video gives a guide through this simple but timeless exercise that has been in use in the School for decades. It’s
How do we cope with tough times?
Do we crumble and collapse or is there a way through? Christine Lambie speaks about Epictetus, who lived from c55-135 AD. Epictetus himself will have
How do we find meaning in life?
In this short presentation Christine Lambie looks at the work of Viktor Frankl – a psychiatrist, neurologist and philosopher, as well as Holocaust survivor. Christine
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