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Puckababy

14 days ago I found this article in the newspaper:

> New sleeping bag to soothe a crybaby

According to this article’s author swaddling up a baby has effect on a baby since it feels secure (probably reminding it of its time spent in its mother’s belly), and because it can’t wake up itself by making rowdy arm-motions.

According to me there is more. Please read below … (Read the article)

Prof. Dr. Danckaerts meeting Prof. Hendrickx: ‘ADHD, a child and its environment’

Each year, the board of the professional association of the Critical Education Coaching, the Hendrickx-method organizes a study day for its members. In the even years we have an ‘internal’ meeting where Prof. Hendrickx talks about a specific subject. The last topics were: ‘The writing hand: mirror of personality’ (2004) and ‘Critical analysis and interpretation of the drawing assignments that are used in problem analysis (child – tree – house)’ (2006). In the odd years we try to set up a meeting between a superior expert within our discipline and Prof. Hendrickx and our method.

In 2005 we invited Prof. Dr. Bouwdewijn Van Houdenhove. The theme was ‘stress and Western diseases’. Last year Prof. Dr. Marina Danckaerts came to talk about ‘ADHD, a child and its environment’. Prof. Danckaerts is the expert in the ADHD field. She works as a researcher and professor at KULeuven, a university in Belgium.

The first encounter between both professors took place a year earlier at a symposium in Western Flanders (North-West part of Belgium). The director of the rehabilitation centre had organized a study day on the relevance of administering Rilatine. Prof. Hendrickx and Prof. Danckaerts were type-casted being ‘the big supporter resp. opponent’ of Rilatine. In this caricature Prof. Danckaerts was pointed out to be the person who would prescribe Rilatine at any time, and Prof. Hendrickx would be the one who would fight this and discourage everyone from taking Rilatine. (Read the article)