Kia Ora Friends<\/p>\n
The weekend has almost evaporated. \u00a0I’m trying hard to get a bit of rest in, after a huge day of cooking a thanksgiving feast <\/a>for our half-American family. \u00a0The trees and pollen of late springtime are having their way with my respiratory system, and I could use a lie down! \u00a0Later, I promise.<\/p>\n SO: we had a buzz-out about all sorts of stuff at the Amberley Medical Centre’s forum last week, and – as promised –\u00a0here is an intro to Temperament research<\/a>, and here is an assessment scale<\/a>. \u00a0More on that later!<\/p>\n Here is a talk by Bruce Perry,<\/a> thanks be to YouTube, and if you’d like to muck around with the “think of child rearing in terms of what our ancestors did” idea, I recommend “The World Until Yesterday”<\/a> by Jared Diamond, and “The Continuum Concept”<\/a>, by Jean Liedloff.<\/p>\n **AND … I”m adding these in later … here are a couple of pieces I’ve written on the concept of Good Enough Parenting. \u00a0This is from the Newsletter of the Brainwave Trust<\/a>, \u00a0and this was written for OHbaby! magazine<\/a>. \u00a0ENJOY **<\/p>\n Better go, as I am trying to model healthy screen habits. \u00a0That’s step one, peeps. \u00a0A great book on this topic is “The Big Disconnect”,<\/a> that’s your homework!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kia Ora Friends The weekend has almost evaporated. \u00a0I’m trying hard to get a bit of rest in, after a huge day of cooking a thanksgiving feast for our half-American family. \u00a0The trees and pollen of late springtime are having … Continue reading