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How Play Can Be Healing

February 11, 2023

Find out how play can be therapeutic and how to encourage meaningful healing play.

Are wooden toys more sustainable than plastic toys?

February 9, 2023

Find out how wooden toys are more sustainable than plastic toys – in not-so-obvious but important ways that go beyond their being eco-friendly

7 Things to Consider before You Follow the Lagom Fad

January 28, 2023January 16, 2023

What lagom means and how we can apply this philosophy in our lives.

Angels: neither Sweet nor Cute

October 11, 2025September 17, 2022

What are angels? How did they come about? If you wish to explore them, here is a starting point.

Believe it or not, There are Good Reasons to Read “Danny, the Champion of the World”

January 28, 2023July 15, 2022

Is it a good idea to read “Danny, the Champion of the World” by Roald Dahl? Here is how it could benefit our children. Beyond controversy.

How to Encourage Symbolic Play

January 28, 2023May 30, 2022

How adults can foster symbolic play (also known as dramatic play, imaginative play, pretend play, small-world play, make-believe play.

6 Ways to Develop the Sense of Wonder

January 28, 2023May 29, 2022

Why children need to develop a sense of wonder while interacting with nature. Based on Rachel Carson’s ideas from the book “The Sense of Wonder”.

The Wind in the Willows

February 12, 2025May 25, 2022

The Wind in the Willows is a classic book that we better read and re-read with our children. That affects us in so many positive ways on so many levels.

We come from a culture in which the elderly are focused on being useful and active, helping their younger relatives and living with or near them. Of course, this traditional approach has been thinning out for decades and is not …

Some thoughts on reading fairy tales

February 20, 2022

Some people have reservations about reading fairy tales to their children. Is it such a bad idea? Children and adult perceptions of tales seem to differ. However, we are venturing into Fairy Land and hoping to share many treasures with you.