Dr. Gordon Neufeld on why children need play

Dr.GordonNeufeld

  I had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Gordon Neufeld, developmental psychologist and best-selling author of Hold on to your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers (co-authored with Canadian Physician Gabor Maté) and founder of The Neufeld Institute. The topic was play, the nature of it, what true play is […]

Is spring break over yet?

juliespringbreak

Where’s the desert oasis? Isn’t it always here ? Isn’t that the soul’s journey? To experience the oasis at all times ? The gift in the present. The power in the now. I’m trying. Conflicting desires don’t make it easy. Wanting to be one place while being in another. Wanting to be doing something while […]

Is it spring break yet?

Lucy

  I thought I would be scrambling for plans and trying to find ways to make spring break ‘fun’ for one of my guys who is off for 10 days !! Oh me oh my. And actually despite my resistance to this break since January, because I want to keep working, my mind and body […]