The book "The Beginning of Free Play"

This book, written for parents of very young children, explains the importance of play in a child's development and offers inspiration on how, regardless of a child's state of health, to guide your child's wonderful journey of discovery through pleasant and joyful, yet at the same time highly educational, play. Play is an inner need of a child. An infant explores their surroundings with tireless interest. Their source of joy is the ability to touch objects, to feel them, squeeze them, lift them and let them go. This list of an infant's activities could go on endlessly. An inwardly harmonious child is full of ideas, whereas a suppressed child's interests are limited, as if their longing for experiments, discoveries and exploration had been broken. The lack of balance in many children most often shows precisely in the superficiality and monotony of their play. Whether you succeed in preserving a child's initial interest in the world around them and developing in them the abilities needed for future free play depends on the adult. Translated from German by Liene Barone. Photographs by Marianna Reismane.

The book "My Child's Path of Development"

A book by the German author Monika Aly for parents whose children have various kinds of congenital conditions. This book helps you look at your child and their needs from the child's own point of view, and teaches you to love, accept and, above all, respect the child's particular path in life — not rushing their development, but giving them the opportunity to grow into a full personality.

The film "The Intouchables"

This film is a true story about the relationship between an aristocratic wealthy man who, after an accident, is forced to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair, and his black carer — a former criminal who, whatever happens, enjoys life and inspires others to do the same! They are very different, and in any other circumstances their paths in life would probably never have crossed...

After a paragliding accident, the wealthy aristocrat Philippe is paralysed. As his helper he hires Driss — a young man from the suburbs recently released from prison... in short, a person utterly unsuited to the job. Together they will bring Vivaldi and "Earth, Wind and Fire" to life — in sounds, words, costumes and tracksuits. Two worlds will meet and connect, giving rise to a friendship as wild, strange and strong as it is unexpected — a one-of-a-kind relationship that sparkles and makes the friends untouchable.

That is the film's synopsis, but it spoke to us through its positivity and its art of enjoying life no matter what. Perhaps it will serve as inspiration..

The film Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump is an unusual fellow who would probably have been placed in a school for the mentally disabled if not for his mother's faith in her son. As a child Forrest moved around in special leg braces, but once they were no longer needed, it turned out that Forrest could run faster than anyone else. Thanks to this ability, Forrest takes up American football and, thanks to American football, he is admitted to college. Forrest also fights in Vietnam, becomes a hero, a millionaire, falls in love, runs around the world and through it all manages to keep a truly bright soul.

A heartwarming film about a special person and about parents' faith in their children, no matter what. The main character's line "Life is like a box of chocolates — you never know what you're going to get" has become almost a classic, but this film is a story about a different, yet no worse, life.