What is the right education?
It is a winter evening in Edmonton, Canada, deeply below freezing. I have two more days to write for the byronchild and no readers’ questions to answer. I wonder what questions anybody could have. I can think of some that have come up with my boys lately. more...
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Death and Dying
From the airport in North Bend, Oregon, to a seminar in Bandon by the Sea, I shared a limousine-like bus with a large black leather couch and lots of champagne glasses, with twelve businessmen on their way to a high-class golf resort. I was arriving a cou more...
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To Pierce or Not to Pierce
My 13-year-old daughter wants me to sign an authorisation to have body piercings done. She wants nose-, lip-, tongue-, nipple-piercings, well you name it she wants them all. The one reputable studio in town requires a parent’s signature for minors. I find more...
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The Perfect Mother
If there was to be a perfect mother on this planet and by some fluke of the universe I was chosen to be it, how would I be different? more...
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My Child Hates Me
Yesterday my two-and-a-half-year-old son Joshua quite forcefully announced that he hated me. I felt devastated. If he hates me when I set boundaries, maybe my boundaries are off. I don’t want to impose my own limitations on him, but he has to put on his s more...
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How do I talk with my children about war?
Before you question how to talk with your children about war, I suggest you ask yourself how you deal and cope with it yourself. I feel that we need to talk with our children about war in a way that makes them see the mechanics of war in themselves. As sa more...
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How do I set the right boundaries?
How do I set the right boundaries? My daughter Kayle is almost three years old and practically running my life. I don’t want to give in to every whim and little temper tantrum of hers and I also don’t want to stifle the development of her will and self-es more...
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How do I meet my fear?
Sometimes I think I am a good mother and sometimes I strongly doubt it. If I look closely I can see that so many of my ‘educational’ actions towards my kids are based on fear. I want them to be able to make it in this world. When John has forgotten his ma more...
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Growing up… and distant!
My 18-year-old son started studying at university this year. Over the years our relationship has become more and more distant. I am beginning to realise that while we are deeply connected in one way, we are not really close or even friends at the moment. more...
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Emotional reactions
I have two daughters aged four and 21 months. My four year old is quite an emotional child. She has great difficulty coping with frustration and when faced with a difficult situation she often screams, yells or cries. Although she has good language skills more...
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Balance in Mothering
I am torn between living my own life and devoting my life to my 3 year old daughter and 7 year old son. Does being a good mother require that I delight in making ginger bread cookies and buying pretend food at the little doll store day in and out? Do I ne more...
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Dinner Table Struggles
Are dinner table struggles over eating this or that food related more to a power struggle rather than what is necessary for a healthy child? more...
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A journey back to my own magical child — a new beginning
Integrating emotions into our life rather than controlling them is one of the topics people who value awakening the human potential are focusing on more and more. For years people in spiritual circles have tried to deal with emotions by transcending them more...
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'Magnifying Glass' monsters
My husband and I have a loving relationship. He is very good with my three children from a former marriage. But a strange dynamic develops that seems to come in waves. It rises, freaks me out, and then subsides. My husband’s attitude towards my son Joel c more...
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