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Parenting today delivers unprecedented challenges to parents. Coping with everything that is expected of you to be a wonderful parent on top of the pressures and demands of modern life is a big task.
Madeleine can provide a range of services that can support you and your family, school, community to raise likeable, responsible, respectful children in an age of over indulgence.
It is hard to grow resilient, respectful, competent children. Children who grow up with too much end up having trouble in life as they:
Changing and influencing - have you always wondered how to make things work better? Take time out in a beautiful setting to work with the group, learning skills that you can transfer to your workplace or home. This residential retreat will combine with the How Much is Too Much subject matter while teaching skills, supporting and inspiring you. The retreat is suited to teachers, community workers, policy advisors, and volunteers who may come from the education, health, leadership, service and engagement sectors or wider. And parents! The fee of $995 per person is all inclusive of accommodation, all meals, 40 hours of training, Jean's book and handouts. Plus a great vibe at a beautiful, relaxing location. Dates: 15th-19th Feb 2021 Contact: Madeleine ph 027 211 6469, email: [email protected], for enrolment and secure your place now.
are you wondering what went wrong and somehow ended up living with a child you don’t recognise belonging to you? This workshop will be a confronting one that will expose you to the risks that children face in this modern overindulgent world. They have few self-care skills and skills relating to others, can’t take personal responsibility and don’t know what is enough or what is “normal” for others – these children end up having a difficult time of it in life and you will too. Get a new perspective, an easy-to-understand model to follow and tools to help you to raise likeable and respectful children in an age of over-indulgence. Aimed at parents, grandparents and caregivers of children of all ages. Dates: 25th Feb and 12th Aug. Community Education Centre, Wellington click on photo for link
In today’s world it is more and more difficult to hold a line and expect people to meet it. Have you noticed the traffic lights take longer to change – because people are running not only the orange but also the red lights – so to prevent an accident the lights take longer and longer to change – all because our society has decided to not hold the line. Click to read more...
No one sets out to spoil or overindulge a child, but in this day and age, setting boundaries as a parent isn’t easy, writes Madeleine Taylor. Being a parent today is tough. Coping with everything that is expected of us in order to be a wonderful parent on top of the pressures and demands of modern life… well, it’s a big task!
Insects have many interesting and useful traits that are helpful for us consider in our own lives. I was walking through the beautiful grounds of a training facility in Pakua, Tangail about three hours drive from Dhaka, Bangladesh last week. I was snapping pictures of the local scenery particularly the flowers when a large dragon fly landed on a branch in front of me. This dragonfly had me thinking that we can learn interesting lessons from the insects around us. I explored three interesting facts about dragon flies and this is what I discovered. Click to read more...
Change is happening; it is all around us and comes in many forms. Change in a classroom, change in staffing, changes in curriculum, changes to buildings, changes to school population, changes to funding and changes politically. Some change is good and some change is not but what is it that makes any change painful to bare? Click to read more...
I was visiting a school community at the end of last term and came head to head with a young person charging out the door – no stepping aside, no acknowledgment that I existed. It was the perfect demonstration of the concerns that the school wanted to address. How to build a school community with empathy at its core? Click to read more...
