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How to Build Emotions the Danish Way
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People ask me all the time what empathy training looks like in Denmark. Empathy is not talked about as a subject as such but rather, it is very entwined in the play and what they…
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What The Danish Way Taught Me About Discipline
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As featured in “The Local” Europe. We were on holiday recently and I witnessed a fairly familiar scene. I don’t need to talk about where we were. It could have been Anywhere, U.S.A or Wherever,…
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LA PRESSE | Heureux comme un parent danois
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Jessica Alexander est une auteure américaine, mariée à un Danois depuis 13 ans. Elle signe, avec la psychothérapeute danoise Iben Sandahl, le premier livre sur la parentalité à la danoise : The Danish Way of Parenting. Nous lui…
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MOTHERMAG | What Danish parents know about the power of play
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We all want our kids to be happy. And happiness is something the Danes have supposedly figured out, with research consistently showing that residents of Denmark are among the happiest in the world. So, it’s…
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NPR | Danes Say Zoo Dissections Fit With Country’s ‘Very Honest’ Parenting
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It’s a cold day in Copenhagen, and the brightly colored snowsuits worn by Danish children make it easy to pick them out of a crowd here at the Odense Zoo, on the Danish island of…
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THE NEW YORK TIMES | Zoo’s Public Dissection of Lion Makes Denmark Again a Target of Outrage
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Denmark — land of delightful fairy tales, modish wood furniture and Senator Bernie Sanders’s favorite health care system — is once again the target of international opprobrium over its treatment of zoo animals. On Thursday,…
