February 12, 2023 This is the first of three follow-up articles to Kids Do Well if They Can that Mary O’Connell and I will write in the coming weeks. A dear friend and colleague of LifeWays, Mary has a non-profit farm education program and LifeWays Representative site at Paradise Farm in West Bend, where she and […]
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February 20, 2022 This deep, instinctual knowledge of our kids- like everything else- waxes and wanes. While our love may always be there, our attention can suffer; our connection can sometimes falter, and when this happens understanding them can seem like a whole lot of work. –Kim John Payne, Simplicity Parenting Last Sunday was pretty
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September 5, 2021 With a recent shift in our days at home, the wisdom of digestion and real nutrition was deeply impressed upon me. Digestion is a life process in which we are asleep in consciousness. It’s important to maintain the dreaming of digestion for children so that they may build a healthy, conscientious relationship
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April 18, 2021 Accept the children the way we accept trees – with gratitude, because they are a blessing – but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t expect trees to change; you love them as they are. — Isabel Allende Recently, I visited my brother and sister to prune fruit trees at their house;
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March 28, 2021 When you discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. -Jean Shinoda Bolen This coming week is our unofficial spring break and a chance to give a big cleaning to the house. We have been setting in place some
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August 23, 2020 Teaching children about the natural world should be treated as one of the most important events in their lives. – Thomas Berry As we have been settling into our new home, I have been making mental notes of how to recreate our rhythm. Considering all the nourishing benefits of being in nature
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August 9, 2020 Only humans are permitted to live without rhythm in order that they can become free. However, they must of their own accord bring rhythm again into the chaos. – Rudolf Steiner My family moved back to our hometown of Kansas City, Missouri this past weekend, and as with every great transition that
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April 9, 2020 We’re all washing our hands a lot more these days! This video from Cynthia features her favorite hand washing and hand drying songs. Would you like to learn more transition songs and simple techniques to make your days with children go more smoothly? Register for Cynthia’s wonderful discipline course Discipline with Loving
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April 8, 2020 A Guide to Building a Rhythm at Home By Adana Whyte First, let me confess something. Even though as a young mother, I studied Steiner’s teachings and read You Are Your Child’s First Teacher, which stresses the importance of an at-home rhythm, I had a very hard time sticking to one. With
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April 3, 2020 Multitasking is overrated – I’d rather do one thing well than many things badly. Quality supersedes quantity every time. -Stewart Stafford The benefit of more time at home is there’s more time to help your kids learn to contribute to the home tasks — their future life partners will thank you later!
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