A Lesson From Denmark about Helping Kids dealing with Anxiety
My children attend a big primary school on the lower north shore in Sydney. The school has a reputation for academic excellence, so the…
Parental Ethnotheories
All I Want For Mother’s Day is a Little Hygge
As featured in NPR Jefferson’s Pubic Radio It’s not a hug. It’s hygge (roughly pronounced “HOO-guh”), the Danish word for “cozy togetherness.” Now, the…
Hygge babies: Here’s why infants in Denmark cry less than in other countries
As featured in Salon A new study published in the Journal of Pediatrics has concluded that Danish babies cry less than babies in other countries, and…
These are the countries where babies cry the most
As Featured in Quartz For new parents, there are few things more unsettling than an inconsolable infant. There’s an endless stream of books and…
British babies cry the most, Danish babies the least. Why?
A new report says that babies in the UK, Italy and Canada cry the most, while Danes, Germans and Japanese babies cry the least….
How to handle thorny questions from children – The Danish Way
In Denmark we have a tradition of being direct, honest and speaking from the heart, when interacting with one another. Even so, many of…
A beautiful message for parents all over the world
So many of us don’t realise how much we are affected by our culture. How the cultural glasses we wear correct our vision on the…
10 life changing questions for new parents
So many people who become new parents get so caught up in the pregnancy and the baby time that they don’t think about talking…