Tots to Teens Articles . . .
(Click on the links to download)
People to Follow . . .
Brian Johnson Philosopher’s notes on Youtube click here.
Brene Brown – Brene Brown on Blame, also Brene Brown on Empathy


My Reading List . . .
The Choice by Edith Eger
Quiet by Susan Cain
Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel
Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
This is how it always is by Laurie Frankel
The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck, PH.D
Creative is a Verb by Patti Digh
You’re Perfect – And Other Lies Parents Tell by Loni Coombs
Mindsight by Daniel Siegel
How we can change our minds, brains & relationships.
The Sleep Revolution by Ariana Huffington
Upcoming Events . . .
Readers and Writers Festival, May 15-20th, http://www.writersfestival.co.nz/
Brain Based Interventions – Dr John Arden, May 25th, Compass seminars https://www.compass.ac.nz/seminars-by-city/auckland

Quotes to Live By . . .
I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things:
a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.
Maya Angelou
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
Linus Pauling
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
Wayne Dyer
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the
greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve
Roger Lewin
Child, give me your hand that I may walk in the light of your faith in me.
Hannah Kahn
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James Baldwin
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
Nelson Mandela
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
George Elliot
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Roald Dahl
Doing what is right is rarely the same as doing what is safe.
Edith Eger
'It’s not that I’m so smart,’
said Einstein, who was a
consummate introvert.
‘It’s that I stay with
problems longer’.