Recently I wrote an article for Time Magazine about Danish children’s TV and in particular the show ‘Vild Venner’ (wild friends). Let’s talk about death!It’s a sweet show about two kids who rescue animals. I sat down very unassumingly one evening with my...

  If you haven’t already been hit by hyggemania, you probably will be soon. There have been nine books and counting launched on hygge in 2016 alone  – a year in which it was named one of the top ten words by both the Collins and Oxford dictionaries along with the...

  Some weeks ago I was conducting research at Danish schools trying to gain a deeper understanding of how Danes actively teach empathy there. Standards set at schoolSeeing as empathy is now considered one of the single biggest factors in predicting successful leaders...

  Recently there has been some uproar about the new French president Emmanuel Macron’s older wife. Double standardsThere was some speculation that “he cannot love his wife” because she is 24 years older than him. “If I had been 20 years older than my wife, nobody...

  As we head into 2018, it is the time of New Year resolutions being put to the test. Many, if not most of us, will fail. According to Forbes, only 8 percent of us will achieve our New Year resolutions, and this is mainly because people give up when they have a few...

  We have all thought about what it means to be a parent from time to time, but have you ever wondered how our culture affects the way we view what we think is the right way to parent? In Norway, parents regularly leave children to sleep outside in -20 degree weather,...

  I recently contributed to the LEGO Play Well Report, a study of 13,000 people in nine countries, which found that families who play for five or more hours together a week were happier than those who played for less. I concur that Denmark’s belief in the importance...