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    Play June 13, 2017

    Listen to the sound of success

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    What Can We Learn From Those “Wild” Danish Kids?

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Togetherness and Hygge, Default Parental Settings, Education, Empathy, No Ultimatums, parenting, Play, Reframing May 23, 2025

How to avoid screentime conflicts The Danish Way?

Power struggles around screentime is one of the biggest challenges parents face today. Conflicts and confusion in this area seem to know no borders,…

Authenticity, Default Parental Settings, parenting, Personal Stories, Uncategorized May 11, 2025

I tried parenting the Danish way for a week and it works-here are the best tips I learned

Denmark is consistently voted one of the happiest places in the world and how they raise their children is seen as a key reason…

parenting, Personal Stories, Play, Reframing, Togetherness and Hygge April 25, 2025

I was a competitive mom until l learned the three rules of Danish Parenting

I was the kind of parent who wanted my children to be successful at all costs; do well in school, get good grades and…

Default Parental Settings, parenting, Togetherness and Hygge March 25, 2025

New Book! The Danish Way Everyday

Book Launch Announcement: The Danish Way Everyday –A practical age by age guide for how to parent “The Danish Way” It’s so exciting to announce the…

Authenticity, parenting March 9, 2025

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…

parenting, Play January 22, 2025

What is so different about the Danish Way of play?

We all want our kids to be happy. And happiness is something the Danes have supposedly figured out. According to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and…

parenting December 15, 2024

The parenting hack you should steal from the happiest country in the world this summer

The tiny country of Denmark has been voted one of the happiest countries in the world for over 40 years in a row. This…

Education, parenting, Togetherness and Hygge May 4, 2023

Could Danish childhood ever be a UNESCO world heritage site?

Having lived in Europe for over half my life, I’ve seen many different UNESCO( United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ) sites. From the Colosseum to…

Press March 1, 2023

How to Parent Like the Happiest People in the World

Q + A with Danish-parenting expert Jessica Joelle Alexander featured in ParentMap For 40 years in a row, Denmark, a small country in the…

Press March 13, 2022

The Danish Way Gets the Royal Treatment

When I married a Dane over 20 years ago and came to Denmark for the first time, I was a self-proclaimed “non-maternal person”. I…

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