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It has been almost 9 months since we have published any post on this blog. That’s the time it takes to make a baby.

So, we are happy to announce that NosVies has just delivered the prototype of its first baby: a children’s book, still warm from the printer, and it looks awesome. There is still some final tuning to do but it will be ready soon. We are also finishing a few other “friendly tools” to accompany our baby on his first journey into the new world.

Its twin brother (a parenting book) is also going to the printer in just a few weeks. And we are reserving the parental right to keep their names secret until their official “birth”.

What we can reveal is that it should be of great interest to any family with children. The team has been doing a fantastic job and working hard to bring these new and innovative products to the birth stage!

In the meantime stay tuned.

And if you would like to be notified when the books make their first appearance, please leave us your email address:

I am too busy producing the educational material with the team to keep publishing the quality of post and illustration I would like. I am also helping a couple of other projects I will tell you more about very soon.

Speak to you soon

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Series: social entrepreneurship, helping others, contagious attitudes

The Net² (aka N2Y2 or NetSquared) conference is being held in California’s Silicon Valley May 29 and 30, 2007.
The goal of the conference is to speed up development of 21 social, humanitarian and ecological projects, mostly North American projects, selected for their potential to make the world a better place by using the Internet. (more…)

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Definition

The authoritarian style mainly enforces respect and obedience for instructions and orders through a mechanism of punishment. As a parenting style, it is structured, commanding and control-based.

Inflexible rules are usually very clearly expressed and must be followed to the letter. (more…)

Series: social entrepreneurship, helping others, contagious attitudes

Nowadays there are numerous programs for both men and women who have decided to give a helping hand to young people who are in trouble or simply facing their future alone.

Through a dynamic relationship, they are sharing their experience, their know-how and their worldview with youngsters.

Call it sponsorship, mentoring or coaching,  (more…)

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Today we were fortunate enough to have one of our cartoons chosen to appear on tv: Toute une Histoire (The Whole Story) on France 2, the main French public tv channel,  at 1:50 p.m., presented by Jean-Luc Delarue.

The programme’s subject is “Do you have to separate to save your relationship?” Taking a little break from each other so you can start afresh, separating so you can find each other again, keeping a healthy distance from each other… These are expressions we’re all familiar with!

Our cartoon depicts a young lady suggesting to her partner they sleep in separate rooms. At first it was for the sake of comfort, then it became a philosophy: space to breathe, joie de vivre, rekindled desire, the key to a lasting relationship.

Clément’s keen eye has done it again! The Réservoir Productions team seem to have done a lot of loving. A big thank you to Julie Grangeon and her editor-in-chief for their confidence in us.

Please don’t hesitate to write in with your opinion and experiences relating to our comments.

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Series: Loving your children is special

Ah!! Our latest little addition, how we love her!

You must have noticed. We love them so much they become our No. 1 topic of conversation!

It’s very simple. Not content just to live with them on a permanent basis, we talk about them all the time to anybody and everybody. And we go into detail about everything last little thing they do. Anything! They’re exceptionally gifted and the whole world has to know about it. (more…)

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Thanks to the magic of the internet, today we are doing a joint post with the Dr. Karen whom I’ve only known for a few weeks. We bumped into one another through our cartoon series on the “Our Love Life” and we decided to collaborate on a common post. Karen writes the main content and we do a summary and also the creative cartoon. The topic we agreed upon was suggested by Karen: trying to change the other in a couple.

In her article, Dr. Karen speaks about the expectation that some people have upon entering into a relationship. She says that some people believe that he or she will be able to change the traits of the other person — whether the traits are undesirable, somewhat irritating, or just a new behaviour they’d like the mate to have.

However, to maintain such an expectation is a recipe for disillusion and frustration. You can invest a lot of time and energy into trying to change someone but most of the time, even if it works for a little while, the original behaviour will return, in one form or another.

Change can be done but only if someone really wants to. Yet, it is a difficult process and, therefore, people often don’t change. Certainly, trying to get someone else to change is even harder, as well as inappropriate.

Enjoy the cartoon and share your thoughts and stories with us. To read the full article, go to Dr. Karen Sherman’s blog

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Definition
The permissive, or indulgent, style of parenting came to the fore in the 1950s and 60s. Its goal? Freer, better-adjusted children who shape themselves while learning from their experiences.

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My wife Vanessa and I were already talking education before our first child was born.

Now, with hindsight and experience, we can see that our discussions were the product of would-be parents with no experience or expertise in the subject.

A tender mixture of dreams, demands, childhood memories and adulthood desires. First child, first grief! Oddly enough, our little one didn’t quite behave the way our theory had envisaged!! Since then our discussions have been livelier…

I couldn’t find my own style as a father. (more…)