April 4, 2020 Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. – Robert H. Schuller Anyone who knits, children included, can make these sweet bunnies in all colors! You will need to knit a square Aran or DK yarn in your choice of colors A strand of black or red yarn for […]
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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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April 2, 2020 Encourage your kids to look for nature everywhere you go. It’s the weed breaking through the pavement, It’s the leaves forming small clumps along the side of the road. It’s the sky at any given time of the day or night. It’s the wind doing what it likes to your hair. Look
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April 1, 2020 Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of a behavioral consequences. – Dr. Dan Siegel, The Whole-Brain Child LifeWays graduate and Waldorf early childhood teacher, Jerilyn Burke, has some really helpful advice to help your days with young
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March 31, 2020 One of our favorite handwork projects in Marianne’s Parent/ Child classes and in our LifeWays San Francisco Bay Area Training is sewing with felt. Marianne says, “I would like to share this easy project for flying birds and shooting stars that can be quickly sewn at home.” Shooting Star and Flying Bird
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March 30,2020 Join in the great company of those who make barren places of life fruitful with kindness. Carry a vision of heaven in your hearts…Your success and happiness lies in you…The external conditions are the accidents of life. The great enduring realities are love and service. Joy is the holy fire that keeps our
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March 29, 2020 When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. – Maya Angelou Is everyone an expert at videoconferencing now? I sure do miss visiting with friends and family face to face, but I’m glad we can still talk via technology platforms like Zoom or FaceTime. Still… it just isn’t the same,
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March 28. 2020 If baking is any labor at all, it’s a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation. –Regina Brett The simple act of baking can bring comfort. It relaxes us, and reassures us that there are certain things in the world that just make sense. And it’s
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March 27, 2020 Adam Blanning MD founded the Denver Center for Anthroposophic Therapies. Dr. Blanning also works as an educational and developmental consultant for area Waldorf schools (Denver, Boulder). He lectures regularly about anthroposophic medicine and child development and has been a guest speaker for conferences in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, and Switzerland. He
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March 26, 2020 The Little Gnome Who Had to Stay Home By Susan Perrow – March 2020 Looking for imaginative ways to help your children through this unsettling time? Susan Perrow has offered a wonderful tale for you to tell the children: The Little Gnome who Had to Stay Home. This story was written for
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