“PROFESSOR, ARE YOU HAPPY? WE ARE ALL TOGETHER AGAIN!”
This is the way my students from the 5th grade welcome me on their first day of school. Their eyes smile and their dreamy gaze captures me in a whirlwind of emotions. I look at them with curiosity. What is happening? Why do they not have the usual annoyed and almost tragic attitude of “the first days…
PARENTS AT THE START!!!
This long summer is over but something new begins for so many young people and not only. The first day of school is approaching!!!! First day of kindergarten, first day of elementary school, middle school, high school. Who of us doesn’t remember the awaiting days on the first day of school? The emoti…
FOOD FOR THOUGHT ON ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
I am aware that I am entering an insidious and very delicate path, but as I always hope to do in the articles of this blog, I will try to propose some considerations hoping to encourage human and professional reflections and comparisons.
I am convinced that anyone who chooses to work with children…
SEPTEMBER ARRIVED
September arrived, it seemed far away last month, and yet it is here… after a strange busy summer, spent facing things, abandoning things, separating myself from things I had already separated, waiting for things and finding and re-finding things.
And in this silent moment, moving with difficult…
PRAISE OF TENDERNESS
In these days we have seen dozens and dozens of dramatic images before our eyes showing the situation in Afghanistan. Among the many, the one that struck me the most is a sequence of photographs in which is depicted a couple, a man and a woman. The woman, who in the first photo appears beautiful and…
OLYMPICS: A NEW STORY TO TELL?
There is an image that has remained on my skin in this strange summer, in which I was taken by anything but the interest in the Olympics: Giammarco Tamberi and Mutaz Essa Barshim who share the podium (gold, high jump), without hesitation. The image is powerful, it tells of a sport that can be differe…
LEISURE TIME
Summer is a time of holidays and lightness, so I allow myself the luxury of reflections on the school from the right distance.
I start almost as a game with questioning what is the etymology of the term “school”. I read on the Treccani website: “Term derived from the Latin schŏla (from the Greek s…
THE SUMMER BREAK
I consider the summer break to be an integral part of a psychotherapy aimed at healing. In so-called supportive psychotherapy, the summer break is instead an accident of which you try to limit the damage by maintaining contact with the patient through phone calls, texts or other ways, all things that…
SLEEP, MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS!
Making images or being images, what’s the difference? I took this photograph from four years ago after a little research of stories created “on the road”. Seeing it again I am struck by the girl posing smiling with one of the melons fallen from the container of the truck that had overturned along the…