How to stop kids from fighting without a bitter taste of injustice? WHY I BELIEVE IN THIS? • Becouse children need to feel they are OK even if they made a mistake • Becouse children are learning social skills • Becouse I believe in possitive attitude and uncondi…
We were playing the Red-Indians with the children this week. We stayed at the highlands chalet by the woods collecting the crushwood and wood for the fire that we sat by when the evening came, playing drums and singing. We were walking barefoot, small feathers pleated in…
It´s been dark outside, there were two flickering candles lit on the advent wreath and the radio played silently Christmas jazz. We were peacefully drawing snowmen at the table and talking about the Christmas time, the Advent, Saint Nicolas, baby Jesus and the festive d…
I really wanted to sleep. It was a hot summer day and tiredness was taking over me. The kids were just falling asleep. All of a sudden, Kryštof appeared at my bedside. “Mom, can I?” he whispered. I nodded and he lay directly on me. He put his head on my breast a…
They went fishing for the first time. In the real ocean. Kryštof held the aquarium net firmly and moved with sure steps in the knee-deep water. He looked for the schools of fish and observed the slithering abalones. With glee he watched the scurrying crab and shared eve…
“You’re so clever! You’re helping me so much!” Such is the usual praise for a child, when he does well. This time it was addressed to a five year old kid, who was helping his dad put things into the shopping cart. An ideal situation. Until the clever boy drop…
I’m awfully impolite. I listen in on other peoples conversations and then publish them. But I can’t help it. In the supermarket parking lot, a father is pushing a shopping cart and behind him there is a seven-year-old girl running. Just before entering the shop, …
The fact that my children want feedback instead of parental compliment is no secret to me e.g. Fuilleton: “No two wheels are alike”. Yet I am still searching and thinking about how I can help them in their life. As a parent, I would like to make my children successfu…
It was winter. Everything was covered in snow, the outside temperature below zero °C. The Lidice cabin in Pec pod Sněžkou was much cosier. The staff was used to children. The personnel joyfully jumped over the tiny bikers and will-o’-the-wisps, who were searching fo…
It was good at grandma’s. Still now, tears blurred his vision when they recall her. The private flat, which used to fell safe and secure. He used to look forward to going there every Friday afternoon. After school, he got on a tram and he was at grandma’s in no time.…
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