November 17, 2019 It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding – Erma Bombeck As the weather cools in the Northern Hemisphere, getting children ready to go outdoors takes longer. Wise caregivers and parents know that getting one’s self dressed for outdoor play is a skill, […]
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October 27, 2019 In a houseful of toddlers and pets, you can start out having a bad day, but you keep getting detoured. – Robert Brault For more than twenty years, LifeWays has been at the forefront of heart-centered, soulful parenting and caregiving of the child from birth to three. This week, we want to
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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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June 9, 2019 The honey bee that fetch the nectar From the flowers to the comb Never tire of ever buzzing to and fro Because they take a little nip From ev’ry flower that they sip And hence (And hence), They find (They find) Their task is not a grind. – Mary Poppins Let’s
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I believe that one of the greatest contributors to disconnection from our children today is technology. I feel it is has somewhat replaced one of our most cherished threads of bonding in families, the art of storytelling. The origins of storytelling are ancient and lost in the mist of time. I imagine one of the
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When we are creating a work space – an office, a classroom, a retail establishment – there are certain tools we need for specific tasks. We wouldn’t normally think of using a hammer to screw a socket into the wall or a screwdriver to drive a nail into a cabinet. We try to find the
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Before I had children I didn’t even know how to spell “rhythm.” I had gotten used to doing whatever I wanted whenever I wanted as a single person: making my own schedule where I could paint 24 hours straight and sleep for 12 hours every other day; loving my footloose and fancy-free life of being
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People all over the country have been protesting the travel ban that prohibits people from certain countries from traveling to the United States. There has been so much talk of building a wall to separate our nation from the “others” that the school age children in my life are expressing fears and asking questions. The me
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When my mentor, Judy Frizlen, Director of the Rose Garden Early Childhood Center in Buffalo, New York, first asked me what I wanted to do for my final LifeWays project, I was convinced that I should write a paper on a Steiner educational theory as it related to Early Childhood Development. Feeling as if I
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“Did you hear that?” my daughter-in-law and I queried one another. It sounds like she is saying “Thank you.” Such are the fantasies of a mommy and gramma of a newly-one-year-old. But hey! It might actually be true. Maybe my one-year-old granddaughter’s first words were “thank you,” translated something like “da do.” That would be
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