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Michael Mendizza

Writer, Filmmaker

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Language Development/Imagination, Parenting

Naming

What’s In A Name?

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Michael

Because the unnatural “routine” hospital birth of our first son was so devastating, the home birth of my second son ten years later was a tipping point. My real education began when I graduated from college and discovered I really ...

Only Power More

More On The Only Force Powerful Enough

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Michael

The Challenge and Responsibility We Call Parenting The miracle we are is a constantly changing interplay, a constellation or radiant galaxy of trillions of independent but interdependent cells relating, communicating and cooperating. No thing is ever the same, not for ...

Story Plus Play

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Michael

Life is relationship. There is me, my authentic nature with its needs and curiosities and the cosmos expanding infinitely beyond me. What happens in the gap defines my life. Children are sponges. Their rapidly changing brains and bodies compulsively seek ...