TEENAGERS ARE UNFRIENDLY
“How old are your children?” “Fourteen and sixteen!” “Oh my God, poor you… terrible years await you… then it will get better” -“My son is ten years old, he is a very affectionate child and we have a wonderful relationship” “Seee… You say it now, wait until I become a stinky, mute teenager or a…
GENERATION X
I often hear from colleagues and teachers that working with children is as difficult as it is exciting, that the responsibility that everyone feels for them, although motivating and valuable, sometimes does not end with the end of the working day, and how they are able to surprise us with their quest…
THE FREEDOM TO SAY NO
Stories of women, of rejection, and courage
These days, among the school desks, with some teachers we are addressing the issue of refusal, that is, the possibility that people have at a certain point of saying “no” in front of something that does not correspond to them. It is an intriguing, but al…
SENSE OF REALITY OR PREJUDICE?
Today I want to tell you about something that happened to me last week that made me think a lot about prejudice, fear of the other different and unknown, and the alertness in which we live on a daily basis that makes it difficult to trust the other and to be open to the other.
On a morning like an…
GASLIGHTING
Days ago I came across an article on Repubblica on gaslighting that is defined as “psychological manipulation that during a prolonged period of time causes the victim to question the validity of their thoughts, their perception of reality or memories, and leads to confusion, loss of security and self…
REFLECTIONS ON THE SCHOOL WORLD
With the arrival of the new year, more or less, we find ourselves taking stock of what we have done and what we intend to do in the days to come.
It is the evening of January 1st as I write what you are reading and just before starting to tick my fingers on my pc I thought: “The first article of 2…
I DON’T WANT TO SHOOT…I PREFER TO RUN AWAY
The story of a former soldier, his humanity and his rejection.
Ferdinand is an Albanian army officer, we are in January 1997 and his life up to that moment is an open window on the future: youth, a promising career, a girlfriend, a homeland …. but Albania is a country in turmoil, exhausted in 19…
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS UNDER THE CHRISTMAS TREE
The young people asked us….
A group of young people, a listening desk, a box. These are the ingredients of a small experiment carried out in a school. As managers of the listening desk we wanted to do something different, something that sometimes seems impossible for both adults and young people…
WHY DID EVERYONE SEE HER BUT NO ONE HELPED HER?
Latina, 12 years old writes a farewell letter and attempts suicide by throwing herself from the school window”. What’s going on? Why didn’t anyone do anything?
In Latina, our city, last week a young girl of just twelve, after writing a farewell note, attempted suicide by throwing herself from the…