The first anthropological parenting book I read was The Continuum Concept by Jean Liedloff, and it’s in my top 10 parenting books. The second was Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff, which clearly joins the top. Among other things, she talks about how to teach a child to clean up after themselves and take care…
Julia Donaldson is not only author of our favorite children’s books, but also our favorite illustrator (to date, Axel Scheffler has illustrated 29 of her books, and they are all among our favorites), wonderful Ukrainian translations, and most importantly, really smart, instructive, witty and exciting stories with unexpected twists, – that’s what Julia Donaldson is…
The social, psychological, and physiological changes that accompany childbirth are often not openly discussed or oversimplified. There is a certain standard in society that the birth of a child should be a “happy event”, but this narrative does not take into account all the difficulties that accompany this process, especially when the pregnancy was not…
Prynadiyi blog is suddenly seven years old, and I am the girl who survived thanks to it. I thank all the readers who have been with me all this time, and I’m also glad when the statistics grow – new readers appear. Sad or not, I hate algorithms and marketing, and I leave the fate…
Dedicated to the man who gave me an invaluable experience of accepted emotions and being heard I love to feel that whatever happens to me is just right and happens when it’s right, that I am in a context, and to understand what this context is. When every book that happens to be at hand,…
When I started this blog, I had no idea that this was my introduction to human, and that my path lays in social anthropology. I was simply answering my own questions that arose on the road of motherhood, delving more and more into the nature of things. Now I have found a name for it,…
I had a hard time reading Eric Berne’s book “Games People Play” because it was hard to remember and apply it to my own life without some foundation. Such a basis appeared to be a book that is not yet available on the Ukrainian market – “Staying OK” by Thomas and Amy Harris. Its first…
What I love about tiktok is that you can really, really go out of your bubble and freak out. In one video, a woman talks about the fact that a man will do anything, move mountains, get married, but all this for the sake of one single goal – access to a woman’s body. And…
Today was the first time I spoke Swedish in public (in Swedish class), and since the given topic affected me directly, I was the only one who actually spoke and didn’t read from a piece of paper: Astrid Lindgren. I never thought that I would live in this woman’s country, learn her language, try to…
Thanks to the book The Courage to be Disliked, I discovered Adler – the father of individual psychology. And read his The Science of Living. It resonated with me, especially considering that I have a background in psychoanalysis and integrative psychotherapy. This is heaven and earth. What if we are all not only under the…
