We must resist overloading young children with multiple professionals!
This series of articles is about leaping forward in the development of early child and family support.
Those of us who know babies and infants in their wholeness, because we are, for example, parents, teachers, nursery workers or
Do we ignore politics because we are too comfortable and safe?
I argued in Leaping forward #7 that the persistent downgrading of the family body is a political issue and that such conferences as Portugal 25 could start to improve the situation across the world.
Another massive political issue for us
Parents and other family members are mostly treated as second class citizens
My starting point for this Leaping Forward series of articles is my experience that parents and other family members are mostly treated as second class citizens. This impacts on their self-esteem and coping strategies and p
Read more: Leaping Forward in early child and family support # 6: A fresh look at families
Are we making progress or losing ground?
My dream is that early child and family support around the world will be effective in family terms, fully integrated between local agencies and available at the time of need to all families in the locality. What would you add to this?
With this aspiration in
'...the educational world is better equipped to work in these systems than is the medical world where authoritarian traditions can predominate.'
Systems-thinking is very straightforward. There is no mystery about it. The basis of systems-thinking is that when elements are joined together effectively
I am imagining Portugal 25 as a powerful springboard to a better future for us all
My hopes and wishes for the conference programme so far have included:
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