Steve Biddulph, psychologist, author and “stand-up parenting activist”, has been there forever. His book The Secret of Happy Children first came out in 1984, but you can still find it in most bookshops. His best-known book, Raising Boys, is in almost 2 million homes, and is published in 27 languages. In recent years, Raising Babies caused a storm with its straight-talking exposition of the research into nursery care and the under-threes. It was part of a successful campaign by child-development experts to win parental leave in the UK and stand up to the government’s efforts to have every parent in the workforce, like it or not. [Read more...]
Parenting Matters – Steve Biddulph talks to Juno about his priorities for family life
March 13, 2011
Safia Minney
March 12, 2011
Kate Woods meets Safia Minney, the founder of People Tree
If businesses were measured by the amount of good karma they created, rather than financial profit, People Tree would be one of the most successful companies in the world. When I visited their London office, hidden deep in the backstreets of the uber-trendy Hoxton area, I was welcomed like an old friend. There was a kitchen in the huge open plan office, where people sat and shared food, and everyone I spoke to seemed to genuinely [Read more...]
Isabel Losada
March 12, 2011
Emma Hiwaizi meets Isabel Losada, author of For Tibet with Love
When I arrive at Isabel’s flat on the Battersea Park Road, she is full of angst about the proposed cover for the United States edition of her book. It is too girly. And one thing Isabel is not is girly – Bright, articulate and passionate – yes. Girly – no! I wonder what North American readers will make of Isabel?
Isabel became a writer almost by accident, although she had kept a journal since the age of twelve. A self-confessed, “horrible stagecoach child who couldn’t do maths,” she went into the theatre when she left school, [Read more...]
Kitty Hagenbach
March 7, 2011
Promoting a paradigm shift in our understanding of the parent-child relationship
In 1923 Otto Rank wrote a book called The Trauma of Birth and, with it, opened a new path of research into the effects of birth on our lives. Psychology of birth developed slowly until Canadian psychiatrist Thomas Verny published his groundbreaking book The Secret Life of the Unborn Child in 1981. Verny claimed that the foetus experiences emotions in the womb and that pregnancy is a crucial period in the life of human beings, and hence, that it is important to parent our unborn children. This awareness heralded an entirely new field of pre and perinatal psychology, 
which has developed gradually to the present day.
Kitty Hagenbach has been a psychotherapist for fifteen years. [Read more...]
