March 20, 2020 May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears. -Nelson Mandela This video features Teresa Walker of Treesprites Farm Preschool. Teresa, a LifeWays training graduate, will be one of our lead student liaisons for the 2020/21 LifeWays Early Childhood training in the San Francisco Bay area. Teresa shares: “Beginning Monday, for as […]
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March 15, 2020 A person’s a person, no matter how small. – Dr. Seuss Helping their child learn to use the toilet is one of those things that strikes fear into the hearts of many parents. When do we start? How do we start? What if my child refuses? One thing parents quickly learn is
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March 8, 2020 “Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” –Dr. Albert Szent- Györgyi “Education innovation” – whenever I hear these words, I cringe. Not because I’m against innovation – quite the contrary! Real innovation in education engages the learner in potent and powerful ways to learn creatively, think
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March 1, 2020 The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. – Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
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February 23, 2020 Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions. — Paulo Coelho
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February 16, 2020 Figure out the rhythm of life and live in harmony with it. – Lao Tzu Rudolf Steiner, founder of Waldorf education, said,” It is important to remember a universal rule: rhythm replaces strength!” Students in our LifeWays Early Childhood training and our online courses tell us all the time that creating a
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February 9, 2020 As I write this there is still a debate in the media (social and otherwise) about the thing that was most important this past week — whether the Super Bowl halftime show was enthralling or appalling. By the time this blog post comes out, I am sure we will all have
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February 2, 2020 Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confuscius Research shows that it is only possible for humans to engage, to learn, to create new neuropathways in the brain when they are in a relaxed state. We will not take in new information, retain, and integrate it when
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January 26, 2020 “When the human being hears music, he has a sense of wellbeing, because these tones harmonize with what he has experienced in the world of his spiritual home.” — Rudolf Steiner “Mark your steps with your feet. In the white snow, deep, so deep. Little holes, bigger holes, Watch where you go!”
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January 19, 2020 Jack’s wise, readable book is a breath of fresh air in a crowded field of hyper-parenting manuals.” – Katrina Kenison, author of Mitten Strings for God “Do you bake?” This is the question Jack Petrash asked one of the mothers in the live workshop he did with Cynthia Aldinger last year in
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