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Why Danish Parents Like to Talk About Death
The other night my daughter and I sat down to watch a Danish kids’ TV program called Wild Friends. It’s a sweet show about two young kids who are animal rescuers. They get calls from all over the countryside to save animals they bring back to a farm where they nurse...
Parents Play to Win in Happiness
Most parents want their children to be happy. This is universal. But what constitutes happiness and moreover, how is our modern-day idea of success getting in the way of achieving this? As the author of the Danish Way of Parenting; What the Happiest People in the...
I Told Myself I Couldn’t Pursue My Dream, and That’s What Held Me Back
Everything changed once I stopped telling myself I didn’t have what it takes. It was always my dream to be a writer. For 10 years I wrote the same novel five times, but I never finished it. “I’m not a writer,” I would think to myself. Then I had children, and my life...