There is such an assumption that everything good comes quickly. However, we also know that saying of early maturity, early rot. Are we able to predict at a very young age which children will excel later in life? Many children were labeled ‘talented’ at a very young age who on…

A hero is a person who, when faced with danger and disaster or from a position of weakness, demonstrates courage and a willingness to self-sacrifice for a greater cause. Initially, this heroism often had to do with struggle or excel at something, but later expanded to a more general moral…

Previously I wrote a blog about training within sports associations. Roughly speaking I made a distinction between the school model and the eel farmer model. Associations that are organized like a school, have clearly described the teaching material per age group, per level, sometimes even per team. From week to…

Our children were able to ride a bike early on. So being on the back of the bike was short lived. They found the fact that they could ride a bike far too much fun. A world literally opened up to them. The elementary school was on the other side…

Last week, a second suicide made the news. Again a child saw no way out. The bullying, the humiliation, the exclusion had become too much for her. In a farewell letter the girl named some of the perpetrators. The school was surprised and set up an internal investigation. The minister…

Yesterday we played the game that it was all about; the game that everything was about. The match we had been looking forward to for months. Before the game it was quiet in the dressing room. Tight faces, boys looked straight ahead, nobody said anything. After the referee came to…

The other day, just in town, I ran into an old colleague. He was shopping, together with his daughter. Although my old colleague had passed the retirement age by now, we recognized each other immediately. “Ha Bert, long time no see! How are you doing? His daughter looked at him…

Because of ‘the Corona’ we have been at home for a long time. Or so it seems. People complain, a lot of freedom has been taken away from them. The longer it takes, the more difficult it gets. Last week I attended a workshop ‘Mentally fit during Corona’, yes they…

A good friend of mine sighed that she was completely upset by the riot that had started around her dream star actor. Kevin Spacey is also immediately written from the House of Cards series. He will crash somewhere in an unknown distant land and never be found again. It is…