community Archives — Miki Dedijer

The strain on consumer families

The strains of sustaining the central family fire in a consumer family are more often signs of these trying times […]

Parenting implodes in a social monoculture. The social ecology we’ve depended on as parents until recently, is today many times

In a few days, a dozen or so men are gathering at our farm around a man about to become

The global village tends no fire around which the children can gather. Its sophisticated arrogance is politely to sneer at

There are a few spells around, beliefs that are so common we hardly notice their insidious impact on how we

Your child’s nature unfolds like an oak from an acorn. Once she has tumbled onto the ground from some mysterious