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April 5, 2020 The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. – Mahatma Gandhi A friend recently asked us for ideas of how to make Easter special for her older boys. Younger children are delighted with egg hunts and baskets filled with treats, but with shops closed …
April 3, 2020 Multitasking is overrated – I’d rather do one thing well than many things badly. Quality supersedes quantity every time. -Stewart Stafford The benefit of more time at home is there’s more time to help your kids learn to contribute to the home tasks — their future life partners will thank you later! …
April 1, 2020 Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of a behavioral consequences. – Dr. Dan Siegel, The Whole-Brain Child LifeWays graduate and Waldorf early childhood teacher, Jerilyn Burke, has some really helpful advice to help your days with young …
March 29, 2020 When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. – Maya Angelou Is everyone an expert at videoconferencing now? I sure do miss visiting with friends and family face to face, but I’m glad we can still talk via technology platforms like Zoom or FaceTime. Still… it just isn’t the same, …
March 26, 2020 The Little Gnome Who Had to Stay Home By Susan Perrow – March 2020 Looking for imaginative ways to help your children through this unsettling time? Susan Perrow has offered a wonderful tale for you to tell the children: The Little Gnome who Had to Stay Home. This story was written for …
March 25, 2020 Dear Friends, Mary, Emily (our amazing social media director), Marianne and I have been communicating, along with Sara, one of our LifeWays Representatives, about striving and thriving in these unprecedented times we are currently experiencing! Many of you have commented on what a helpful, simple and beautiful sample schedule Emily created as …
March 24, 2020 Quarantine: The New Family Reality by Pia Dogl, author of Beginning Well, Care for the Child from Birth to Age Three – Empathy from the Very Beginning During this time of Corona Virus quarantines, how can parents stay calm and empathetic with our children, while feeling overwhelmed and insecure? You Are Not …
March 22, 2020 Patience and fortitude conquer all things. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Those of you who practice a Christian faith tradition probably recognize this painting depicting the story in which Jesus and his disciples go out in a boat and there is a severe storm. Jesus remains calm, even takes a nap, while the …
March 21, 2020 There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein Chinyelu Kunz and Molly Brett are two of the outstanding teachers at Rosebud Early Childhood program, a LifeWays Representative Program at Kimberton Waldorf School. …
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 …