The old understanding of the child, is that from birth she is accompanied by a daimon, a genius in search of a destiny. The maveric psychotherapist James Hillman drew on this understanding of the soul’s vitality in what he called the acorn theory. With respectful and attentive guidance, this seed grows in the communal soil, […]
overparenting
Overparenting and social monoculture
Parenting implodes in a social monoculture. The social ecology we’ve depended on as parents until recently, is today many times frail and tattered. There is little social cohesion around our homes, few of us have a living community in which to plant our children. In a few generations, the communal life that held our children […]