September 29, 2019 For even the wisest can learn incalculably much from children.” ― Rudolf Steiner, How to Know Higher Worlds A guest post today – from LifeWays Early Childhood graduate Emary Williams: “I am so excited to homeschool this girl. I want to jump right in and learn with and teach her everything, but I have […]
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September 22, 2019 Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty. – John Ruskin The plant in this photo is amaranth, an ancient grain important to Native American tribes. This red variety, originally grown as a dye plant by the southwestern Hopi Nation, has the reddest seedlings of any amaranth known.
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September 15, 2019 Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. – John Milton Cynthia writes: ” This video is from a student in our Florida LifeWays training group. It is of her adorable 18-month old child imitating his daddy
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September 8, 2019 Thanks to the work of our colleague, Veronica Oliva-Clour, Observing Young Children: A Tool for Meaningful Assessment has been approved for use in Minnesota by their rating system, Parent Aware. What a gift to teachers and early childhood educators that they may use a system of assessment that honors the spirit of
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September 1, 2019 As we come around to the official end of summer, Labor Day, our thoughts turn once again to work — good, honest hard work. Rudolf Steiner had this to say about the value of the practical life: Seek the truly practical material life But seek it so that it does not numb
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August 25, 2019 The first wealth is health. –Emerson As parents get ready to send their kids back to school, the subject of the school lunch often comes to mind. Packing lunches that are nutritious, appealing, and hold their freshness while hanging out in a backpack or locker all morning is not always an
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August 18, 2019 Love is higher than opinion. If people love one another, the most varied opinions can be reconciled — thus, one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another. If this human fellowship is not achieved, all
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August 11, 2019 Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are. – Harold S. Kushner As I mentioned in last week’s blog post, Rahima and I are in Xi’an, China teaching in LifeWays’ first Birth to Three course. I have learned so many
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August 4, 2019 Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. -Saint Basil This week finds Rahima and me in China, teaching for LifeWays! We’ll hopefully have lots of things to share with you from this wonderful trip, where Rahima
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July 28, 2019 The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. – Mark Twain The challenge was to snap a photo of a moment in time and write a little reflection to help you remember the moment. And the winner is….. Maria Allen! Her photo
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