Our Little Homo Sapiens Can!

Our Little Homo Sapiens Can!

How to strengthen children’s natural competence and independence

Understanding your child’s evolutionary code will make your family life much easier. Every newborn comes into the world with a natural system which follows its development: it knows when the child needs protection, food or rest. The problem is that we do not understand all the signals clearly, so many of these natural systems turn into pitfall which frustrate parents and unsettle children. In this book, Rita Messmer, an experienced educator, shows how parents can support their children’s natural competence according to the principle ‘less is more’. Amazing examples drawn from Messmer’s expeditions to the most remote parts of the world show how independent even small children can be, the moment they are allowed to deploy their natural evolutionary systems.