culture Archives — Miki Dedijer

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 […]

I know that my children deserve less than I got. Most likely your child does too. This doesn’t go down

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

When the sun comes out again in Spring, we notice how much there is that needs a good cleaning, stuff

A friend of mine grew up in the inner city, a world of asphalt, concrete, steel and the growl of

There was a time in your ancestry, either within living memory or well beyond depending on your particular lineage, when