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"Everyone has been made for some particular work
and the desire for that work has been put in every heart."
Hz. Mevlana Rumi

Holistic support for you and your child:

Helping you to allow your child's potential to unfold

With a variety of experiences including many years of teaching at various levels,

I offer hands-on support

with a focus on

body-mind awareness, environmental influences and nutrition.

Martina J.M. Mühlhauser, B.A. (University of London)
info@cosmos-kinder-coaching.com

Etymologically, the word Learning stems from "following or finding the track".

Hence, Learning actually means: Finding and following your (child's) own furrow.

The German word for "track" is "Spur/Spüren", i.e. to feel-sense, sensory awareness.

"We oppose the baby from the start, coached by experts and the society around us, not by our own feelings.

We wage a war of wills: the baby is hungry and cries and we say no, it's got to be four hours between feedings...

'Don't do that, you'll break it!'... - all of this constantly undermines our feeling of competence, our trust in our instincts. The first job we have on Earth, which is dictated innately, is that of an explorer.

We act as though human nature were something to be afraid of, to constrain, modify or fight, to subdue and overcome. Somehow we have gotten away from believing that we evolved in a way that works.

We believe that our nature has to be modified, opposed and controlled from the very beginning.

Our nature, like that of every other animal, works fine the way it is.

But we do not trust human nature. We distrust it in infants, in children, and in ourselves...

First we tell them how bad they are and then tell them to be good.

The neighbours are coming to tea or we're going to kindergarten and you say to the child 'Now be good.'...

If you thought someone was good you wouldn't need to tell them would you?
It means pretend to be good because you know what you really are: bad.

The message goes straight to the heart of the child, to his feeling, where his self-confidence is being formed. What's formed is a feeling that I've got to learn to hide what I am: I am bad. I am antisocial, but I'd better try to look good to get by. This is an uncomfortable and very inefficient way to behave...

One is never to do anything for a child that it can possibly do for itself, even if it takes a while longer. Because every time you do something, not only do you give the child the message that it is inefficient or incompetent, but you're actually preventing it from learning from having faith in its own ability to accomplish things..."

Jean Liedloff (1926 - 2011)

Photo: Jean Liedloff with a Yequana child,

used with kind permission of continuum-concept.org

Wilma Rudolph,
born in Tennessee, underprivileged, 20th of 22 children,
contracted polio when she was 5,

1960, aged 20, she was the world's fastest woman: Olympic Games, Rome, three gold medals, running...

"Social is sensory."    

Michael Mendizza 

“...Education. Right now, there’s a strong tendency to require assessment of children and teachers so that you have to teach to test. And the test determines what happens to the child and what happens to the teacher.

That’s guaranteed to destroy any meaningful educational process.

It means the teacher cannot be creative, imaginative, pay attention to individual students’ needs. The student can’t pursue things, maybe some kid is interested in something, can’t do it because you got to memorize something for this test tomorrow. And the teacher’s future depends on it, as well as the student's...

And the very ranking itself is harmful. It's turning us into individuals who devote our lives to achieving a rank. Not into doing things that are valuable and important."

Noam Chomsky

Safe
The mayor of Haifa ordered to immediately disconnect wifi in kindergartens and schools in the city:

"... we will activate a safe wired system."

"Menschheitsfamilie..." (Dr. Daniele Ganser)

Sir Ken Robinson,
author of Finding your Element - How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life:

(English humour inclusive...)

"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education.
They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Whereas if the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less 'showily'.
Let him come and go freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself...
Teaching fills the mind with artificial associations that must be got rid of, before the child can develop independent ideas out of actual experiences."

Anne Sullivan, teacher of Helen Keller
(Helen Keller became deaf and blind when she was one year old.)

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
Steve Jobs

http://vod.beingandbecomingfilm.com
a documentary by Clara Bellar

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