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How Do Children Benefit from Being at LifeWays? by Mary O’Connell

–Excerpted from an article by Mary O’Connell, Director of the LifeWays Training in Oregon and Wisconsin, and Founder/Director of LifeWays Early Childhood Program in Milwaukee, WI. Mary writes: We can’t really determine if any childcare program or school benefits our child until we identify what it is that we want for them. If you ask

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Old Gnome through the Year

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Most of you know Suzanne Down, who teaches storytelling and language development in all the LifeWays trainings and is Director of the Training in Boulder.  If you don’t receive her monthly Story Newsletter from Juniper Tree Puppets, sign up for it here –it’s free, and a great resource. Suzanne’s new book, Old Gnome through the

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Thanksgivakkuh by Serenity Gordon

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Serenity writes: This year Hanukkah falls on Thanksgiving for the first time since 1888. It won’t happen again until 70,000 + years from now. So this Thanksgivakkuh is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Hanukkah is a minor Jewish holiday.  Although it is often compared to Christmas, the meaning is actually much more  complementary to the meaning of

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Seeking the Light by Nancy Jewel Poer

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Many of you know that Nancy Poer, one of our beloved mentors from Rudolf Steiner College, is recovering from open-heart surgery at their White Feather Ranch, north of Fair Oaks.  Unable to present at the recent early childhood conference at RSC, she put in a “cameo appearance” and circulated her inspiring words on “Seeking the

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