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May 13, 2018

The astonishing scientific connection between love, parenting, brain development, education and poverty.

The other day a perfect stranger helped me understand the astonishing scientific connection between love, parenting, brain development, education and poverty. And what it means for parenting my kids to greatness, and helping the most vulnerable in our country. I was MCing an event where critical development-based research was being released when an elderly man…

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Tag: brain-development, responsive-listening, south-africa, unconditional-love
April 27, 2017

Rehumanize 101 – How Excluding Others Slowly Kills You Both

We have never been more polarized as a society. It’s not just South Africa, it’s the DSA (Divided States of America), it’s the whole world. Whipped up emotions and more vocal than ever, we all tend to be part of the problem. And social media allows each of us to vent our views and frustrations….

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December 12, 2015

Why we are staying – for the kids

(By guest blogger and my wife, Julie Williams) There’s a weird thing happening in SA. Well, to be fair, there’s a lot of weird sh@# going down. But I’d like to focus in on the niche weirdness of white, upper-class parents in SA at this point in time. And their seemingly unchecked yet (in my…

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