Fix Yourself; Fix Your Child
One of the quickest ways to affect change in your children, is to work on yourself. It’s easier to work on and change you, to fix yourself than it is to fix your child. This has always been my [...]
Managing the fear of ‘not knowing’ in the mists of Covid-19
Is everything feeling surreal to you? I have this feeling of uneasiness and I sense a palpable fear, mine and everyone else's. It has been a week of non-stop media interviews, helping individuals and families adapt to working from home, [...]
Stress Management: Getting The Balance Of Tension And Pressure Right In Order To Perform And Be Effective
Photo credit: Robert [email protected] We are so concerned about too much stress and pressure that we are often at risk of losing sight of the fact that there needs to be sufficient tension and pressure within a human [...]
Are we really listening?
“The fundamental cause of nearly all communication problems is that people don't listen to understand; they listen to reply." John Maxwell & Les Parrott, 25 Ways to Win with People (Nelson Books, 2005) This statement hit me between the eyes. [...]
Heritage – it’s your story, how are you telling it?
Mathilda Mathema, member of a communal vegetable gardening project, tells stories to her children by a fire. | Location: Mahwanke, Zimbabwe. This is Africa. In Africa we pass down our stories verbally from generation to generation. In a [...]
Let your glitter settle
Glitter storms are a daily occurrence in all our lives. Stuff happens that disturbs us, stresses us, throws us off our game and makes us anxious. While we are in the glitter storm things are messy, unclear and we feel [...]
#AmINext? #IHaveNoWords
Credit: Annie Two Cents - Instagram: @AnnieTwoCents #Ihavenowords has been my overriding feeling over the past few days since Nene's senseless and tragic death (symbolic of so many others that go unnoticed or unreported); the xenophobic attacks; the [...]
Does Google facilitate curiosity or shut it down?
Finding facts and information has been made very easy by Google. Adults and children alike know that if you need to know anything you just Google it. In fact, Google has become a verb that is used instead of the [...]
Intellectual breadth is important – we need T-thinkers
We need more young people who are T-thinkers with a broad, cross-disciplinary education. Let's not push kids to specialise too early, before they even know who they are, let alone what they are interested in! We need them to find [...]
Being able to ask questions is at the heart of curiosity
While we share three drives with other primates - the need for food, shelter and sex, there is one key differentiator and that is a human being's ability to wonder why and ask questions. Around the time our children turn [...]