” They talked about it »… This simple legend refers to one of the most famous press cartoons in history, published on February 14, 1898 by the Figaro. By affixing it to the bottom of the second drawing – a fist in the dining room – from his diptych A family dinner, the author illustrated […]
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Curfew, containment: how to help our children overcome the crisis
How to spread your wings when you live under a bell? How to find a place in the wide world when it retracts? While the health crisis is taking hold over time, many parents see it every day under their roof: their children are living a truncated youth. “My son never leaves his room”, Louise, […]
Coronavirus, containment: how parents support their children
“I let him go to sleep with friends at night” Sylvain, 43, father of three children “This period is very complicated for my eldest son, in terminal. He must pass his baccalaureate at the end of the year but he already knows that the specialty tests will be done in continuous assessment. As his grades […]
Covid-19: how to organize the return of students to university one day a week
The students will return to the benches of the university. Forced since the end of October to follow their courses by interposed screens, they will be able to return one day a week in lecture halls limited by a 20% gauge. “A student must have the same rights as an employee”, justified Emmanuel Macron, bearer […]
How to help your young child to build his language
In this month of January, in around thirty schools in Paris, Lyon and Bordeaux, the language workshops, created ten years ago by Elyette Joubert, former teacher and vice-president of the School for European Grandparents ( EGPE), are back in service, in the classes of small, medium and large sections of kindergarten, after a long interruption […]
High school, how to choose your specialties?
This is the puzzle of the moment for the second students. These high school students are invited to gradually choose, between now and the third quarter, the three specialty courses they will follow next year, up to four hours per week, in addition to the common core. They will then have to – this task […]
Covid-19: How to reinvent the Christmas spirit in times of pandemic?
The cross : This year, families will not be able to gather around large tables at Christmas. The government recommends not to exceed six guests, not counting children, to limit the circulation of the virus. How to preserve the spirit of this small family celebration? Jacques Arènes : The Christmas spirit is not necessarily incompatible […]
Covid-19: how to live a Christmas from a distance with grandparents?
The cross. This year, many grandparents will not be able to spend Christmas with their family. How are they likely to experience this situation? Olivier de Ladoucette : I think it will be a pretty painful moment for most grandparents, even if many are resigned because they know that at their age, Covid-19 is a […]
School failure: how difficulties resonate with our experience
“Overcoming failure at school helped me never to despair” Hervé, 3 children, works in communication “Unlike his elders, who followed a brilliant education, our youngest, now in college after a passage through technology, experienced serious difficulties from elementary school. He had trouble concentrating, tics, struggling to understand things that seemed obvious. Doctors have concluded that […]
Covid-19: How to prepare children for such a special Christmas?
The cross : How to preserve the magic of Christmas in the eyes of children in this context of health crisis? Nicole Prieur: This year we will all have a special Christmas and it seems important to me to turn this situation into something positive to show the children that the spiritual sense, the moral […]