Catherine L'Ecuyer is the mother of four children and author of the book 'Educate in amazement'. This Canadian studied law in her native country, and the year 2006 (already in Barcelona) began to investigate and disseminate issues related to education.
This activity allowed him to boost the Apego - Asombro project in 2010, nominated by the Proteus Ethics Awards as an Educational Project. How to educate in a frantic and híperexigente world? How to get a child, and then a teenager, to act with enthusiasm, be able to be still observing calmly what is around him, think before acting and be motivated to learn without fear of effort? some of the questions that this book intends to answer.
Children of the last twenty years live in an increasingly frantic and demanding environment, which on the one hand has made the task of educating more complex, and on the other, it has removed them from the essential.
His life has become a true race to burn stages, which increasingly distances them from their own nature, their innocence, their rhythms, their sense of mystery.
In an interview with La Vanguardia last month, Catherine said that 'killing a child's imagination, amazement and creativity to instill as soon as possible and against his nature a reasonable attitude is typical of a cold, cynical and calculating society. We make the children to our measure, ... '
We program our children for endless activities that, little by little, they are moving away from the usual leisure, free play, nature, silence, beauty. Many children are missing the best of life: discover the world, enter reality.
The book can be bought quickly and safely on Amazon (it has reached number 1 in the list of "best sellers").
It is also found in any bookstore, as well as in specialized establishments and large stores (Abacus, FNAC, the English Court, Casa del Libro, etc.).
In the blog Apego - Astonishment of Catherine L'Ecuyer you can read that in the face of the desire that any parent presents that their children are free, autonomous and responsible people. The finding that more and more, children are dispersed, hyper active, with difficulty in creating bonds, in recognizing authority, in managing their affectivity, with arrogant, violent, ungrateful, insecure attitudes and that find their source of motivation mainly in external stimulation.
Let's stick with this phrase because it seems to me that we all need to reflect on it: 'the problems that are seen in childhood, are nothing more than a cry of nature, which revolts before a lack of respect for the basic needs of the child'.
