And What We Can Do About it.
In their excellent book “Hold on to your kids” famous child development experts Dr. Gabor Maté, and his co-author psychologist Dr. Golden Neufeld, suggested that society is pushing the youngest generation to be more peer oriented than parents oriented.
It was morning, it was winter, and it was dark. Richard Branson’s mum sent him on a 50-mile bike ride to England’s south coast! I had to convert 50 miles into metrics to understand that it is about 80 km… Not to mention that he was just a kid!
As a bored and nonchalant computer sciences student in the late nineties, one day, I stumbled upon a documentary showcasing a young teenage girl from the US earning very good money by building websites for local shops!
Inspired, I got some books from the library and started to develop my first website. It was all pink, all cranky, but it was working… well, on my localhost, a.k.a. my local computer.
…The maternal instinct is strong and powerful and will never allow, to lose the fight. We feed, we clean, we take care of our children, we read to them stories… we give endlessly … But this maternal instinct, so powerful, nourishes itself of the woman’s being…
Today I was decided, I was going to write to you, something special for you...you are so far from me, yet I feel you so close. Words are jostling in my heart...every emotion wants to be the star, and be the first to pass on my keyboard... distance,...