Klink and the psychiatrist

He was the man who wrote a letter stating he wouldn’t, he couldn’t find himself walking a right wing governmental path. He was the man who suddenly stepped out of the negotiations for a new government, because he felt there was not enough trust and confidence, and there were not enough grounds for cooperation. Me [...]

Grown ups are responsible for what happens at school

When grown ups don’t interfere with social processes in the class and group when these processes result in exclusion of a few, children are hurt. This is happening at the school of my daughters, and has been happening. Now the story unfolds itself it becomes clear that grown ups have seen this exclusion and didn’t [...]

The swimmingpool

So the girls went to the swimmingpool with the whole class. No, the boys didn’t go, they wanted to play soccer. Some of the girls didn’t go, they had other things to do. So a very small group went, and when half of the girls saw someone they knew they went there… It’s the same [...]

protection against the sun

Oh my dear! The temperatures went very high today and I saw some children playing outside in the sun without any protection. I don´t understand those parents, because enough warnings have been issued to protect children. We´re even warned against bad creams and lotions. More than half of the suncreams contain oxybenzone, which influences hormone [...]

Puberty and hair

With puberty hormones flying around for quite some years now, I’m used to a lot. One of the boys has a way to decorate himself with out of fashion hairlooks. He had very long hair a few years ago, and the last year he has it straight upwards to the sky. Kilos of hairgel in [...]

children malnourished in hospitals

In the seventies and eighties we had discussions at university about painmanagement in newborn children. Many doctors said that painperception in newborns wasn’t developed enough to need medication. We now know that babies who get painmedication when they’re undergoing certain procedures heal and develop faster than those who don’t get meds. It took decades to [...]

Arghhh, that school!!

Again problems with the school of the girls. None of the girls got the results back from a project they had to make. It consisted of seeing a movie and meanwhile reading questions and answering them. Not so much establishing if a kid understands the movie, but if it’s able to multitask. One of the [...]

eggs, eggs and eggs

This afternoon I suddenly remembered an event many years ago. I promissed to make pancakes at the house of a friend. One of the children celebrated his birthday and he wanted pancakes. Lots of them. So his friends would be able to eat as much as possible. We were prepaired. Literally “were”. Because when I [...]

masked man

A masked man approached children when they come from school. He’s been doing this for over a month now, but just recently we heard about it. That was after the schools in the area issued a warning. We didn’t get it, because our children visit a different school. Only when the local paper picked up [...]

My dad

It’s a long time ago that I walked with my dad in the woods nearby, trying to see rabbits, find other animals and learning about almost everything in nature. Some people always say he was a silent man, but he wasn’t. Just with them. He didn’t like people who thought they were more important than [...]