Articles and presentations on the web

Here is a series of lectures and articles by Mireja founder Jonas Himmelstrand:
(Articles in Swedish can be found here.)

Commentary on »The Child Care Transition«
June 30, 2011 at EU Child Well Being Workshop in Brussels

Rose-tinted view of ’Nordic’ childcare based on misconceptions
June 24, 2011 in The Irish Times

Work-Family balance from a Swedish perspective
June 3, 2011 at UN Expert Group Meeting, New York

Busting the Myths of Swedish Family Policies
May 5, 2011 at the Institute of Marriage & Family Canada – video and audio

The limits of the welfare state
April 26, 2011 in National Post, Canada

Work-family reconciliation and fatherhood in Sweden
March 29, 2011 – Presentation at The Hungarian Presidency Conference

Shared responsibility family & society – the question of choice
February 4, 2011 – Statement for Conferenza Famiglia in Parma, Italy

Jonas Himmelstrand on Swedish Family Policies
November 5, 2010 on The FamilyWatch YouTube

Lessons learned from Swedish family policies
November 3, 2010 – Statement for Forum Européen de Femmes in Brussels

Are the Swedish state family policies delivering?
May 25, 2010 – Statement at the Familyplatform conference in Lisbon

Which philosophy on learning and growing?
March 1, 2010 in Strategies to Learn & Grow

Are today’s ideologies and people compatible?
September 21, 2009 in Strategies to Learn & Grow

Social training and the prefrontal cortex
September 7, 2009 in Strategies to Learn & Grow

Book review: Hold On to Your Kids
August 24, 2009 i Strategies to Learn & Grow

Attachment – the science of relationships
February 9, 2009 in Strategies to Learn & Grow

Secure children – Secure parents – The role of family in the 21st century
December 10, 2008 – Speech at a Swedish Parliament seminar

To »learn and grow« improves public health
August 11, 2008 in Strategies to Learn & Grow

New knowledge on life long learning
March 10, 2008 in Strategies to Learn & Grow

Jay Belsky – controversial day care researcher
December 3, 2007 in Strategies to Learn & Grow

Parents or peers – who matters the most?
April 30, 2007 in Strategies to Learn & Grow

Is the feeling »home« hard-wired within us?
November 6, 2006 in Strategies to Learn & Grow

Book review: Why Love Matters
September 11, 2006 in Strategies to Learn & Grow

Book review: Love and Survival
November 21, 2005 i Strategies to Learn & Grow

When a mummy becomes the boss
October 24, 2005 in Strategies to Learn & Grow