If the files/chapters Children of YESTERDAY = today's adults. Today's adults -> adults of TOMORROW completed by ... from today's adults -> to adults of Tomorrow... should not only be considered the presentation and beginning of the whole site/book, setting up the essential meaning of the whole, they are also followed and consolidated by the files/chapters evidencing the Author's personal knowledge by showing - even in a not English file/chapter - preliminary excerpts of the message and the sources of her teaching references. Moreover to support them has to be utterly keep in view a main purpose: to straight emphasize the "fourth dimension" of human life, moving from childhood and its obliged passages of development to their everlasting presence into memory - either conscious and meaningful or "removed": unconscious and often damaging. These concepts however are forcefully dynamic and then these topics must ever precisely and timely be enabled by continual basic adds and conceptual revision. Therefore it is not adequate to read them on a static book: the real relevance of such lively - not theoretic - subjects has to be reached and considered often confronting the Web site, moreover on its ever up-dated files Consciousness and memory, Anamnesis? A way for healing.... But the "fourth dimension" of the time has not to prevail on the other three ones of space and its properties: at any time they are to be compared together and secured on a wholeness. Just the far-reaching SUBLIMATIONS: VISUAL SCHEMES AND SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION file/chapter is done to complete the above quoted parts, but it introduce also a more general learning since syntetizing the main concepts of this whole work in not usual but impressive terms; but should consolidate as well the message coming from Anamnesis? A way for healing... and from Consciousness and memory.: the interactions between corporeal occurrences and their inter-action - into and from - external world, which can be defined the background of the PSYCHOSOMATIC science. Besides whilst to read a book is easier than reading long files on-line: when the English pages of this site are PUBLISHED, PRINTED and SOLD as a NORMAL BOOK - as already happened for the Italian book from this site Bambini di ieri = adulti di oggi. Adulti di oggi -> adulti di domani - after the book published some data have changed needing to become a second English book arising from the up-dated pages. But just after book published, further considerations suggested to better and more precisely complete the personal sources of knowledge: so the files My guides... my roots and Opinion, fact, complaint are so much amplified to occasion a latest, revised book to support these changes, dedicated to explanatory data rather than to detailed descriptions. THRIVINGANDHOME: what means?http://www.thrivingandhome.com/ ...: thriving and home...<"thriving" and "home"Children of YESTERDAY = Today's adults. Today's adults -> adults of TOMORROW...
The English
term home
is
almost
an international one meaning living
space, domestic household.
But the less common
term thriving,
which means "prospering" or better: to
progress toward or realize a goal, refers to the best of the
pathway
to gain an optimal
ripeness.
In
order to give a broader insight into
important scientific points of view relating to human evolution,
this Web
site's and book's
first aim is to present two previously published personal books DOMESTIC
CHORES. Ergonomy and
psychology of a REAL work and Childhood:
times of mutability together
with another book, reprinted
in
Italian translation: Emmi Pikler Per
una crescita libera / On
behalf of freely growing up. (The
German
edition still available is: Lasst
mir Zeit; for a French
bibliography go
to: Silapedagogie:
Emmi Pikler). To coil/embroil reflects to involve: is it the contrary of to develop? At a good side: only wrapped buds can thrive; but also to uncoil embroiled matters can assist development once restored past. On the contrary - at a bad side - involved conveys to mislead /embroil meaning also FRAUD. Any way by these quotes, subheading the basic file/chapter Anamnesis: a way for healing..., it is almost possible to abridge the whole meanings (plural) of this whole work. The presented books, as well as the files of this site related to them, could be assumed to be in the field of - if one can call it so - "childish-ness" and "family-ness": subjects which could be considered to mean unimportant, little, retiring matters, and - or else - feminine. Unimportant, little, retiring, merely feminine?... Instead, children, home-life and house-work are at the very basic ROOTS of mankind, and so the studies regarding them become the principle way to plan a deep, real knowledge on the entire wisdom of humanity. Unimportant, little, retiring, merely feminine? On the contrary - since, and according to the fact that the child is the father of the man (as stated by Maria Montessori) - the whole true sense of these books, of this site itself and - more - of this whole work-in-progress is to point out loud and clear the preference for a solid study which has to go on from BEGINNINGS (plural), by the very seeds, by the natural, typical, BASIC origin. Consequently these studies must also be themselves in continuing progress, under constant remodeling for a - hoped - fruitful evolution. Hence: a prospering development must tend to a true, sturdy ripeness: a term, and a concept about, which appears perfectly depicted in the heading of the web site with the famous Shakespearean sentence: ripeness is all (King Lear, V Act, II scene). Childhood: times of mutability? Why times plural? What sets out these mutable changes? This title lays emphasis on highlighting a reasoning which follows strictly the idea of differentiated ways, a compelling assertion that every evolutive advance succeeds through apparently unconnected ways, though instead each joined to the other into a precise calendar: this must not interfered with in order to avoid the outcome of an handicapped or sick true ripeness. In order to reject any doubts about this, one can read everywhere into the site - and also see by means of the range of pictures - that it is impossible to really join this aim other than through complicated PLURALprocesses, along with the continuing of multiple and differentiated turning-points: respectively called by Erikson It is to point out that the Freudian term complex arises from complicated, etymologically related to collected or coiled in folds; besides it is even more to point out that development, in the famous Italian Tommaseo's Dizionario dei Sinonimi e Contrari is only encountered by looking up its opposite: embroil. Any way - as quoted above and below - this etymology opens two ways: at a good side on which only coiled, wrapped buds can thrive; and also how to uncoil embroiled matters can assist development once restored past; but at a bad side where, as synonym of to involve, step by step to embroil goes to mislead which can allude also to FRAUD. Wrapped buds can thrive? To carry with the remnants of the unfinished task? In fact wrapped buds are delicate and at the mercy of the environment: so it is to mind at these Erikson's crucial words: if an infant's physical and emotional needs are met sufficiently, the infant completes his/her task developing the ability to trust others. However, a person who is stymied in an attempt at task mastery may go on to the next state but carries with him or her the remnants of the unfinished task.
![]() ![]() Settling foundations...It is however necessary to be precise right from the beginning, in order to introduce wherever possible the basic concepts underlying ALL this site in its role as SPOKESPERSON for our activities. It is certainly understandable, subjectively, that the substantial variety of graphics (also present in the books) and the insistent, continuing showing of underlined words indicating links may appear incoherent and distracting if not almost oppressive; but this layout both of the on-line texts and the corresponding printed versions is NOT of informative literary essays, least of all – as already in the heading “science fiction” and not even – and this is vigorously emphasised – an a-critical coverage of the usual unreported or unusual news.In fact in more evident fashion than is normally cited, the variety of graphics within the text visibly differentiate the paragraphs “elsewhere” to which must be attributed the full responsibility of that which is affirmed. The “normal” bibliographies at the foot of the text indicate the sources to which the author has presumably referred, but this procedure does not correspond to our intentions. Not only do we not wish to have long lists of STATISTICS at the end of articles but we WANT each reader to have an immediate realisation of the REALITY of that which is affirmed – which only the immediacy of the net can grant. These graphics and links therefore constitute a very much DESIRED and different STYLE of BIBLIOGRAPHY. For the choice of terms and phrases and images to complete them we agree the supply of an interactive dictionary and thesaurus that allows to discover the connections between words in a display which works in a fluid and dynamic way like people brain unlike a paper-bound book. To summarize: the whole of this site outlines a long personal research and hard work profiting from the offer of telematics help, which, better than printed papers, offers not only a broad sharing of easily available data, but a nimble exchange of checks, discussions, even debates, partaking in, and deepening. In reality these studies are mostly interested in the fundamental (fundamental in its real meaning which settles the foundations, and not only as a turn of phrase) and life-referring subject of personal HUMAN DEVELOPMENT, but also it would be wise to cut short with descriptions of the individual turned away from his environment. In fact so likewise, one must never forget that this environment is not unique but scattered in a paramount of pluralities and one must accept always that all of these pluralities are also under constant modification. Therefore with a wish to widen more open horizons, this site is continually brought up to date, and - as here - the Italian pages have some quotes and full files translated in English, with the aim to reach more differentiated information and checks, and to share with an increasingly wider and various audience. Notwithstanding - as happens for the Italian book already published - since a Web site thanks to the typical dynamism of the Net can continue to up-date every subject, quotation, reference and even picture: then a “staticâ€� book form - any way more easy to be read for summarize and condense ideas - can only follow its topics by late anticipation on new possible edition. The site and the related book contains many files/chapters connected together with many combined links in order to better relate together complementary topics. But if the material in a conventional book must follow a linear logical structure of precise "chapters" on the contrary a Web site following other rules allows more possibilities. Every Web page can be read by itself as a magazine "article", or better as Encyclopedic lemma: coming directly from it, the derived chapters of this common book, can better mirror the site and its so numerous references indirectly displaying every inner connection, or cross-reference by sending on the on-line site the UNDERLINED words enabling to easy find the linked suggestion. Encyclopedic lemma? No matter then if often many whole paragraphs are set - more or less identical - in many chapters as they belong to many files. In the site there are full chapters of another Italian book regarding Childhood; there are Italian and English links directing towards external pages and significant Authors; in both languages there is a file on the foremost subject of Consciousness and memory which explains also opportunities to undergo and/or recover from rotten or damaged ways of personal evolution, and also how one can or not repair these bad consequences. The last basic chapter of the Italian book regarding DOMESTIC CHORES: just the chapter whose title so strongly points out towards the future - Children of YESTERDAY = Today's adults. Today's adults -> adults of TOMORROW - gives too the title of the web site. Any way it is not copied here as an inner file: Italian readers can - and are invited - to read it in the book, English ones... must wait - or better: are welcomed - for a translation. However DEVELOPMENT and related subjects does not only regard personal lives and growths: as books, publications and Web sites also every kind of "facts" have their evolutions and evolutionary phases. And so, on the model of developments of housework(s), all other activities, works and jobs can have portrayals of their arousing keys: on regard of concrete works it is to say that house work(s) are WORK BASICS of every kind of adult's task since on the domestic chores one could find the very basical subjective foundations of many works, jobs, crafts, toils and even business: and all this in different manners according to all persons' customs or all life-style's program. Moreover not only persons and their evolutions are different, but also people and their behavior and remodels: from the NORMAL development stages and complexes all possible human skills and activities "open" themselves (the technical, Freudian term is to sublime) towards evolutions which can either be far-reaching and beneficial or, if blocked, coerced into blind alleys to even become destructive. Domestic Chores: a TRUE work?Ergonomics is the science which studies the better ways and tools (psychology and research included) to accomplish "work". Since in domestic chores one can find the almost pure basis of the normal proceedings for giving the right rhythm to a normal childhood, so one can describe them as representative prototypes, as general paradigms of every other work, job or profession. But the organization of household is also (in Italy: officially acknowledged) a particular and in itself a real employment and business, a factual socio-economic establishment, which, like every concern, has a productive aim: the products of the household are - or must be - to conserve REST and to grant AID for the whole family, but one must also consider its forthcoming products, that is to say children, that is to say the next generation. Warns Adults of today -> adults of TOMORROW about causes and consequences? and then responsibilities? if not eventually guilt and its forthcoming retaliations? Symmetrically the above quotes mean that the qualities and faults of the future women/men's risk to mirror the qualities and faults of the home where they have been brought up, or in other words: one can maintain that every personal and further generational evolution takes advantage of, or may be damaged by the best or by the malfunctioning past evolution of the "concern leader", of the adults by whom and with whom everyone's growing up happened, as shown clearly in the web site's (and Italian book's) title:Children of YESTERDAY= Today's adults. Today's adults -> adults of TOMORROW Guides and TeachersAnd here I summarize what in the Italian file Presentazione is explained more widely, what is outlined on Anamnesis: a way for healing..., but nonetheless I list also here my GUIDES and put links to their references. I had no personal teacher(s), I do not follow any school or circle or train. As guides to be reported I have chosen those, whose indirect teachings were (and still are) my main cultural basis, mostly those whose work gave rise to till present and active Organizations: with and for some of them I personally worked. But one can learn and take advantage also by different methods if not taking part on controversies; or rather to better open and lighten knowledge and then forthcoming views and related plans it is furthermore to consider the opposite side of thinking and acting: then it should not be so strange to find in the file/chapter ...my guides... my roots... also members of the contrary side.In the body of many files/chapters there are also linked various Authors (even great scientists: such as Claude Bernard and Freud The A recurring nightmare file - sorry: for the time being only in Italian - holds however an inner link referencing Ronald Laing's books. And obviously I invite you to learn more about Emmi Pikler, her writings and her Organization: her book - On behalf of a free growing up = Lasst mir Zeit - is the third one presented in this Web page as its Italian translated book. But another Author - Erik H. Erikson - was my first teacher, an Author who I never knew directly - not even in passing during Conferences - but whose ideas I studied making the most of them already before the translation in Italian of his books. He - rightly nicknamed identity architect - so well specified the key categorization of the basic "steps", which Nature puts as milestones during every real development, so nimbly and accurately laid the basic, sturdy conceptual ground of these occurrences that he became the main Author who validated my personal and previously less well defined one. To my mind he is the Author whose writings are at the basis of every study concerning human people, as well as the validator of some of my own writings, past and present, just as this Web site is.
In the Italian version of this
file/chapter - Presentazione
- there are
many quotes to more explicit how an Italian inner
file/chapter of the site
- Dalla
famiglia
preistorica alla famiglia
utopistica [From
the prehistoric family to the utopian one]
also chapter of
the book Infanzia -
was
previously written
as an article published in a magazine called Giornale
dei genitori [= Parents'
magazine],
where I wrote
regularly
for more than ten years till 1960 as columnist about Smallest
babies'
problems.
I wrote also as columnist for the Montessori Organization's magazine Vita dell'infanzia [= Children's life], But previously I worked until my degree in 1957 for the Birth Psychoprophilaxis, taking part - by myself alone or with the Centro Nascita Montessori of Rome - in some Congresses, as in Nice 1987 where I presented the recurring nightmare and the related original documentation. Also by myself or with the Montessori Organization I took part in the International Council for Children's Play with writings, Conferences etc. And last but not least: the last link stresses in a wide bibliography regarding children games, but on the body of the file Consciousness and memory - as already written above - one can reach another wide list: a particular list of scientific Organizations and Conferences dedicated to consciousness and memorization of one's own birth - or even one's own pre-natal experiences.
Direct ExperienceAs the matter of fact here I have to specify that my knowledge of Smallest babies' problems, and birth experiences comes not only from readings or Congressual Relations and Communications: but most of it came directly FROM SMALLEST BABIES/FROM NEWBORNS themselves, they were (and are) MY FOREMOST GUIDES: my worthwhile teachers were really them: the little children.My Guides and Teachers were my contemporary when children and the littler ones of my generation, were the contemporaries of my children..., and so, now, I can update my knowledge from my grand-children and their littler friends and from all "new" children who I meet and get to know.... And for the time being I can also update my knowledge of generations from all whom at present have become parents and grand-parents, by the progression from children of yesterday, or rather from "children of the day before yesterday" to children and grand-children of many of them.
My "teachers"
were and are
children
observed in playgrounds, or any way during their FREE
plays,
even if in a wide variation of sets and milieus; even in the particular
if not
terrible circumstances which were in Europe during World War II
for
my generation.
On
ending this wording I must highlight
and affirm how much I promoted my education from teachings given also
by ANIMALS,
how much I amended
many
wrong
concepts learnt from books, receiving instead the solid awareness
acquired by observation, by Ethology as science
provided that it should not be the experimental Ethology, by
direct, rigorous, scientific observation only of
"normal" lives and spontaneous behaviors. I repeat and
confirm:
very often I received a severe and
irrefutable censure regarding
previous
studies by what I learnt directly from "real" and "normal" children
-
the child is not an inert being, not able to get relationships with his surrounding world as believed previously - as written by Emmi Pikler and also I gained in a very profitable way from observation of the "normal" animals' life. Only with these strong helpers could I correct some totally fallacious and/or restricted ideas: a thoughtful attention of the Natural deeds could have amended theories issued only from hypotetical "chatters", published and teaching researches regarding the "pathological" way of life and of growing up as an ideal pattern in every situation. |
Merriam Webster on line:
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Take a look, too, at
A real warning: there are indeed scientists who not only declare such harsh convictions, but who try to transpose them towards - harsher - aims (see Delgado e Skinner and the interview with him: Psychocivilization and its discontents)
If possible read also the Italian file
matching the English one Totem and
Taboo:
IMBROGLIO
E' IL CONTRARIO DI SVILUPPO. Da: 'La
violenza
contro il bambino' a 'Tempo di mutamenti'
e 'La meglio
gioventù'(To
embroil
is the contrary of to develop. From the Viol
nce
against
childhood
towards Time
of mutability
and Best
young
people
)
Partly in English by inner quotations is: Basta
un poco di zucchero e la pillola va già...
To
be taken into
account by English readers Ritalin
and ADHD: a
spoonful of sugar...
excerpted from confront with
the whole text:
Metilfenidato
e Sindrome da Deficit di Attenzione e Iperattività (ADHD)
Look also at the file
partly in
English from another Web site/book: Malattie
rare in offerta speciale
ANAMNESIS: A WAY FOR HEALING... is very important as content, but also the quotations on the title utself are to be considered as endorsing a significant part for presenting our aims. To embroil/coil reflects to involve: is it the contrary of to develop? Sensible EXPERIENCE? how instead harmful can be feelings remaining inside to rot, deep rooted without a voice! -
Answers to come? controversies? A method of work?