About Us
Judith Martinovich M.Soc.Sc.
(Australia) MA in Counseling Psychology (U.S.) is a social skills
counselor with children in New Jersey. She also does some individual
counseling and groups.
"Teaching, parenting, counseling -
each is an art in itself. There is not one correct way, just
as there is not one correct way to climb a mountain, paint a picture or
sing a song. When we value the unique contributions that each
of us has to offer, we build bridges of understanding and tolerance. Each
individual has infinite potential and resources within themselves - the
goal of support and/or therapy should not be to 'teach' but to empower the
individual to find their own languages, and to value and use their own
resources. Therein lies the value of creative expressive activities."
JRM@CreativeExpressiveActivities.com
The Hundred Languages
of Children
Loris Malaguzzi,
translated by Lella Gandini
The child
Is made of one hundred.
The child has a hundred
languages
A hundred hands
A hundred thoughts
A hundred ways of
thinking
Of play, of speaking.
A hundred always a
hundred
Ways of listening
Of marveling of loving
A hundred joys
For singing and
understanding
A hundred worlds
To discover
A hundred worlds
To invent
A hundred worlds
To dream.
The child has
A hundred languages
(and a hundred hundred
hundred more)
but they steal
ninety-nine.
The school and the
culture
Separate the head from
the body.
They tell the child:
To think without hands
To do without head
To listen and not to
speak
To understand without joy
To love and to marvel
Only at Easter and
Christmas.
They tell the child:
To discover the world
already there
And of the hundred
They steal ninety-nine.
They tell the child:
That work and play
Reality and fantasy
Science and imagination
Sky and earth
Reason and dream are
things
That do not belong
together.
And thus they tell the
child
That the hundred is not
there.
The child says:
No way. The hundred
is there
