A friend posted this to her Facebook site today and it was too moving not to share. We need more people like her. Real super heroes. “Today I witnessed a terrible action of a father towards his little son (around 3 years old). Scenario:...
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For those of you who have missed our series on Danish Parenting, it’s baaaack. With The Danish Way of Parenting authors Jessica Alexander and Iben Sandahl leading the way, we’ve already discussed the concepts of the power of play, the importance of teaching empathy,...
An Australian TV programme that highlighted Denmark’s “kids gone wild” at a forest kindergarten struck a nerve internationally. Parenting expert Jessica Alexander explains why. A few weeks ago, a video came out from a programme in Australia about a day in the life...
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...
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, Europe. It could have been on a beach, in the snow, in a restaurant or...
The Local’s opinion columnist Jessica Alexander was a bit taken aback to hear her Danish husband reading their child a book about sex but should she have been? When I heard the words “Mads stikker sin tissemand ind i Emilia’s tissekone” (Mads sticks...
Having recently seen the news in the Washington Post about a mother secretly filming her 5 year-old son being held down against his will and threatened with a paddle nearly the size of a bat while he squirms and cries for help, it compelled...
In a controversial new ruling by the Council of Europe questioning France’s laws on spanking, debate has ignite across the country about what kinds parenting practices are truly beneficial for children. Smacking has long been an acceptable practice in France for disciplining children but...
