December 2024 This blog was shared with us by Jerilyn Cole Burke! She writes: The cold has finally caught up with us in my neck of the woods! With it comes an invitation to slow down, breathe deeply, and savor the reflective season that’s now settling in. I’ve been thinking about festivals and how we […]
Autumn 2024 Self-awareness and self-compassion are the foundational steps toward self-care. A well-cared-for Self creates a strong, flexible footing for sensitive awareness and responsiveness as we care for our families or Early Childhood classes. If you practice meditation already, you are familiar with the deep sense of self-care it offers. Self- care is
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September 2024 It is one of a parent’s greatest challenges to remain calm in the heat of an intensely emotional moment with our child. There is no such thing as a “one-response-fits-all” to any child’s tantrum or meltdown, and we have to be calm and centered in order to know how to respond
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September 2024 Vicki Kingsbury, an Early Childhood teacher at Prairie Hill Waldorf School in Wisconsin, shares this timeless article with us for today’s blog! As a Waldorf Education early childhood teacher, over the years, parents have often asked me: “What one thing can I do to promote my child’s healthy development?” If
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August 2024 Today’s article has been written by Judith Frizlen, a beloved teacher of LifeWays and mentor to caregivers. Summer is the season of outdoor adventures, vacations, and family reunions. Reunions can be a lot of fun but also fraught with unfinished business dating back to childhood. I have discovered it’s helpful to
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September 10, 2023 One of the more challenging parts of parenting is finding cooperation in all that we need our young children to do. It becomes especially challenging when they develop their own ideas and agendas about what they would rather be doing in a particular moment, and thus, when we require of them to change
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September 3, 2023 Today’s Living Arts Weekly is a delightful article from author Judith Frizlen, who has just come out with a new book, Where Wisdom Meets Wonder: Forty Stories of Grandma Love. You can find more about Judith’s new book, as well as how to purchase it at her website here. This archived article from
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July 23, 2023 In today’s article I share my experiences and tips on the great social art of roadtrips with littles. I’m kind of kidding about it being a social art, but really, it feels like an art more than a science to master these kind of family adventures! Did you ever ride in a
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February 12, 2023 This is the first of three follow-up articles to Kids Do Well if They Can that Mary O’Connell and I will write in the coming weeks. A dear friend and colleague of LifeWays, Mary has a non-profit farm education program and LifeWays Representative site at Paradise Farm in West Bend, where she and
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December 18, 2022 In this week’s article, we examine the developmental aspects of toddlerhood that play into Social Ability. It is the second article in a series that will focus on the development of social ability throughout early childhood. Toddlerhood is an ultimate phase of Doing colored by a dramatic entrance of the Feeling
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