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"CHILDHOOD"
Childhood is a time for learning about the essentials ~ about goodness, beauty and truth.
Childhood is a time to be loved and to love ~ to express fear and to learn trust ~ to be allowed to be serious and calm and to celebrate with laughter and joy.
Children have a right to dream,
and they need time to grow at their own pace. They have the right to make mistakes and the right to be forgiven.
Children need help to develop self-mastery, to transform themselves and bring forth their highest capacities.
Children have a right to be spared violence and hunger, to have a home and protection. They need help to grow up healthy, with good habits and sound nutrition.
Children need people to respect adults whose example and loving authority they follow. They need a range of experience ~ tenderness and kindness, boldness and courage and even mischief and misbehaviour.
Children need time for receiving and giving, for belonging and participating. They need to be part of a community, and they need to be individuals. They need privacy and sociability. They need time to rest and time to play, time to do nothing and time to work.
Children need moments for devotion and room for curiosity. They need protective boundaries and freedom for creativity. They need to be introduced to a life of principles and given the freedom to discover their own.
Children need a relationship to the earth, to animals and to nature; and they need to unfold as human beings within the community.
The spirit of childhood is to be protected and nurtured. It is an essential part of every human being and needs to be kept alive.
~The Alliance for Childhood~ |
Welcome to INSIDE OUT!
We are a child focussed practice that specialises in the following services for children, parents and professionals...
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Therapeutic Workshops for Parents & Professionals
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Pyschoeducational Seminars for Parents & Professionals
Child Focussed Services
 Welcome! My name is Monique Rutherford and I am the founder and director of INSIDE OUT Centre for Children's Emotional Well-Being.
This site is focussed on providing you with information and resources that promote the personal, emotional, behavioural and spiritual growth of children, it may even change the way you think about yourself and your relationships with children.
Children are our future, they are our planet's greatest resource and life's generous blessing. They make us laugh with joy, cry with sorrow and often, fume with frustration. Children promote emotional expression - both in themselves and in us! Sometimes we want to hug them and never let go, other times we wonder why we ever got involved in the first place. Being a parent, carer or child professional is an amazing and rewarding experience. It is also one of the most unacknowledged, thankless and frustrating jobs around. Unfortunately, children do not come with a handbook with all the answers you ever needed to know. Each child is individual and unique with their very own needs, wants and feelings.
However, living or working with children is an amazing opportunity to effect the life of another human being, to really make a difference. It is an invitation to grow as an individual - to grow personally, emotionally and spiritually. Here at Inside Out Counselling Service we encourage you as parents, relatives, carers and child professionals to open your mind to the possibility of inspiring children to be who they truly are and learn more about yourself and your relationships along the way.
Monique with a client after a Sandplay session.
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