Joy and Self-Care by Kerry Ingram As the old song goes, “I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart. Where? Down in my heart. Where? Down in my heart.” That’s right, it is down in your heart, your core, your center. It has many different names; joy, bliss, passion, light, divine; and […]
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~ by Judith Frizlen This series of weekly contemplations will guide and inspire your parenting or work with young children. Judith speaks with a warmth and wisdom drawn from her years of experience as a parent and former director of Rose Garden in Buffalo, New York. Deepen your Self-Care Practice with Judith’s popular book, Words
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~ By Meg Freeling What needs to precede school life for young children? At this time when curriculum is being pushed to ever-younger children, Meg Freeling encourages us to begin rethinking the “pre-” in pre-school so children’s earliest experiences support them optimally. Considering aspects suggested by the letters “P-R-E,” she encourages caregivers to serve
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Beret writes: One of the things I love most about the LifeWays approach to early childhood is the respect given to a child’s pace. Children are given ample time to get through any given activity. They are not rushed or told to hurry. Adults do not do things for them even though it may be
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“Life is like a flowing stream” is probably the best cliché or metaphor to describe our year in 2013. We went through dramatic changes adjusting to our newborn baby, Nia, a new house, developing a community project, and having family and friends coming and going almost every other month. Lastly, a natural catastrophe in the
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Back when my now 17 year old Gustav was a baby, I started going to a mom’s group at our church. We moms spanned a wide range of backgrounds: educational, economic, even religious. Our director picked a mothering book to read and we took turns presenting a chapter each week. We discussed the ideas
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Over the past 28 years, Anne has lived into and studied the realm of early childhood as a mother of two, a co-founder of the Anchorage Waldorf School, and a trained Waldorf early childhood teacher of parent-child, nursery and kindergarten classes at AWS. She came towards LifeWays out of her own observations of the need
Elizabeth has been in the caregiving profession as a nurse since 1970. Post-graduate studies include Waldorf Early Childhood Education, Anthroposophic Medicine and Nursing, and Rhythmical Massage certification. Elizabeth is also a trained natural foods chef, and with her husband and son has owned and operated Paul and Elizabeth’s Natural Foods Restaurant in Northampton MA, established in
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“In our modern civilization, where all eyes concentrate on outer, material things, no attention is given to the state of sleep, although man devotes to it one third of his daily life. Never should it be thought that man is inactive while he sleeps. He is inactive only in so far as the outer external
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As we respect the importance of rhythm in the life of the young child, creating a rhythm and space for rest time in our busy day at the Seaside Playgarden is critical to good health and well being. I want to share with you what we have done to create a quiet space for this
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