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Seeing the north star

March 13, 2019 By Miki Dedijer

It’s March, and for a few months longer on the northern hemisphere, until dimmed by the long summer days, the stars will strew the night sky. This is a good time of year to head out with your child after nightfall, to introduce her to the North Star, this fixed axis point on the firmament […]

Home as a place that doesn’t exist

July 21, 2018 By Miki Dedijer

The global village tends no fire around which the children can gather. Its sophisticated arrogance is politely to sneer at domesticity as a lovely ideal, but ultimately a naive and inevitably temporary undertaking. It announces to anyone seeking to grow roots, that home is to be found everywhere, making sure that it is nowhere to […]

Respect trumps understanding

December 5, 2017 By Miki Dedijer

I just spent twenty minutes in the car with a sullen son on the way to school. We didn’t speak a single word the whole ride there, until we said goodbye with a long hug. I had no idea why he was mad–maybe something to do with his mom and shoes that were too warm. […]

Let your child teach you how to move

November 19, 2017 By Miki Dedijer

Why did I tell my youngest boy to sit still at dinner? What possible reason would make sense here? “You can hurt yourself if you fall backwards.” “Your body needs to be calm while eating.” “You’re distracting others from their food.” Yes, sure, possibly, perhaps, maybe. More likely it’s because as a child I myself […]

Everything in nature needs rest

November 11, 2017 By Miki Dedijer

Everything rests if we don’t mess with it. Deer rest under trees, digesting their food. In late summer the blue tits hang out on branches just swaying with the wind, watching the clouds go by. Our cat does nothing but rest–he’s merged with the sofa cushions. Yet so many of us have scheduled rest right […]

Sometimes your child needs you to be quiet

October 24, 2017 By Miki Dedijer

We’re taught to communicate through words: to speak our minds, to articulate, enounce, voice our feelings. But no matter how good our intentions, all those words can be overwhelming and confusing. Sometimes our child needs us to be quiet. If she’s afraid, in pain, angry, she’s not open to verbosity. She can’t even hear a […]

Nothing is good for a child’s growth

October 19, 2017 By Miki Dedijer

Every child needs a healthy dose of nothing to do. Nothing germinates their imagination, cultivates their delight, develops their relationship to self. Nothing gifts them with the discovery that their selves hold an infinity of world’s within worlds. Nothing teaches them something about life that nothing else can do. Too much to do, too many […]

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