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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. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Thierry Koehrlen, 27 May 2007 | Filed in
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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. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Thierry Koehrlen, 23 May 2007 | Filed in
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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, Read the rest of this entry »
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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.
Posted by Thierry Koehrlen, 8 May 2007 | Filed in
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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. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Thierry Koehrlen, 7 May 2007 | Filed in
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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
Posted by Thierry Koehrlen, 2 May 2007 | Filed in
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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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Posted by Thierry Koehrlen, 29 April 2007 | Filed in
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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. Read the rest of this entry »
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The love parents bear for their children is very special.
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Posted by Thierry Koehrlen, 27 April 2007 | Filed in
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How will you vote?
Ah ! Elections would be a lot less titillating if it weren’t for polls. They gage each candidate’s popularity and tell us how they would fare if the election was to be held that. By extrapolating the results from a few thousand of electors polls somehow manage to take the pulse of the whole population. Seems pretty wild! Nevertheless, people are always clamoring for them! Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Thierry Koehrlen, 17 April 2007 | Filed in
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