David Blumenkrantz Ph.D. M.Ed. Archive
Some of the best advice I’ve ever received: Start your day reading the comics and watching old Seinfeld episodes. The other day I watched a Seinfeld episode from 1992. In it famed N.Y. Mets 1st baseman Keith Hernandez was featured going out …
Planetarium Initiatory Event – PIE®© “Finding Your Place – We Are Home” By: David Blumenkrantz, Ph. D., Ed. M. “I believe that it is very difficult to know who we are until we understand where and when we are. I …
Is this really the end of adolescence as depicted by Paula S. Fass in her new widely acclaimed book: “The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting From Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child” (Princeton University Press …
A unique approach has been designed and is being adapted and refined to meet the extraordinary challenges in contemporary western society of supporting our children’s awakenings and yearning for connections. It is through a whole system’s community-oriented rites of passage …
Remembering Our Shared Story Puberty is a time of great transition and potential in our personal story making. Children begin to wonder about the mysteries of the Universe and their place in the world. Their internal narrative becomes more robust …
Humans are curious creatures. We organize our perceptions of the world through stories to explain mysteries and help us feel safe and secure. Story making comes from our natural inclination to have an internal dialogue with ourselves that narrate our …
I first heard this old Yiddish story, which has roots in the Talmud, from Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz.1 While we are in the womb, we know everything there is to know about the universe, but we forget it all at birth. …
A little boy was walking down a path and he came across an old rattlesnake. The snake asked, “Please little boy, can you take me to the top of the mountain? I hope to see the sunset one last time …
Humans are curious creatures. We organize our perceptions of the world through stories to explain mysteries and help us feel safe and secure. Story making comes from our natural inclination to have an internal dialogue with ourselves that narrate our …
Tír gan teanga, Tír gan anam. Padraig Pearse A country without a language is a country without a soul. Gaelic Saying Stories are formed from words, which are the building blocks of language. Each letter, each word is nuanced by the …
