MY CLASS IS A FIELD OF SUNFLOWERS
“Papillon: writing on a blog”: a brief history of a school project
This year I teach in a second class. In the morning I enter in the classroom and look at my students: some are always sulking, closed in a melancholy difficult to scratch, others are constantly in motion, volcanoes erupting with li…
THE FREEDOM TO UNDRESS, NOT TO BE
(The following article was written by the students of a second level of the G.B. Grassi scientific high school in Latina, within the school training project “Papillon, writing in a blog” relating to the accademic year 2022/2023 )
We apparently experience gender equality. Culturally not yet.
A f…
FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON SPECIFIC LEARNING DISORDERS
I return to a topic already debated in this blog (it was the first article written by me back in November 2020, “Specific learning disorders. What do children tell us?”), Because in recent days I have read an article sent to me by a colleague psychotherapist and then others again this month due to th…
TO BE A WOMAN IT’S NOT ENOUGH
Today we see many female protagonists in public life, in political, scientific, artistic, sporting and cultural fields. We can talk about women in power, about equal rights.
Even in Italy, we have “finally” a female premier.
Who knows, maybe the next president of the United States will also be…
THE SCHIZOPHRENOGENIC MOTHER
A mother visits her son in a mental institution. Glad to see her, he put his arm around her shoulders and she stiffened. He retracted his arm and his mother asked him, “Don’t you love me anymore?” The boy blushed and the mother said, “dear you should not feel so easily embarrassed and afraid of your…
WOMAN AND SCIENCE, A SCARY COMBINATION
I was re-reading today Maria Pranzo’s beautiful letter published on this blog entitled “a woman premier.” An unfortunately predictive letter… after all, there was no doubt that it was, to quote a very famous movie, the Chronicle of a Death Foretold.
In the letter the author, evoking the possible…
THE CARE OF WORDS
This year after the summer the sea or the mountain, returned to our cities to expect we found the countryside… It was not so much the usual rhetoric or slogans that struck me as the use of a few words that I was struck by, rather reluctantly following debates and talk shows, perhaps motivated by th…
THE QUEEN IS DEAD. LONG LIVE THE KING!
…But what kind of female image is Elizabeth II?
On Thursday, September 8, the news of the death of the Queen of England, Elizabeth II, quickly went around the world, interrupting with an impressive media force the ordinary everyday life of a September afternoon. Immediate reactions due to heads of…
NO (DANGEROUS) STEP BACK
In recent days we have heard so many, among them a statement by Hillary Clinton about Giorgia Meloni is striking: “The election of the first woman premier in a country always represents a break with the past, and it is certainly a good thing. But then, as for any leader, woman or man, she must be jud…