July 26, 2020 How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children. ~Charles Darwin Dear readers: We wish to extend a big thank you to Cynthia for writing such inspiring Sunday posts for us over the past few months. As she shifts her focus to our new online courses and […]
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July 19, 2020 Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare. ― Angela Duckworth Some pretty funny memes have circulated about this challenging year, 2020. Sometimes a good chuckle helps take our minds off the pressing issues of our time. Teachers are planning how to safely go back into the classroom, or how to muster up their
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June 28, 2020 Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah La-la how their life goes on Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah La-la how their life goes on –The Beatles Hi Everybody, How are you? Michael (my husband) and I had an interesting conversation recently where we both noted that we felt as if we are
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June 21, 2020 If there is any immortality to be had among us human beings, it is certainly only in the love that we leave behind. Fathers like mine don’t ever die. -Leo Buscaglia A Blessing for a Father By John O’Donohue The longer we live The more your presence We
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June 17, 2020 Some of the best memories are made in flip flops. ― Kellie Elmore Here we are in the middle of June. The Summer Solstice is just ahead as is Father’s Day! The children have been home for three months already and unless you are fortunate enough to have childcare there are many
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June 14, 2020 Receive the children in reverence Educate them in love Let them go forth in freedom –Rudolf Steiner One of the most developmentally appropriate video tutorials I have seen to help us learn how to further our children’s understanding that Black Lives Matter is the one above by a young Black woman, Kimaya.
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June 10, 2020 May your home always be too small to hold all of your friends “I resolve to make my home welcoming! “ This is what I wrote in a notebook many years ago as I sat in a tiny English garden with my newborn son, who, amazingly was sleeping for more than
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May 31, 2020 May your new work excite your heart, Kindle in your mind a creativity To journey beyond the old limits Of all that has become wearisome. May this work challenge you toward New frontiers that will emerge As you begin to approach them, Calling forth from you the full force And depth
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April 8, 2020 A Guide to Building a Rhythm at Home By Adana Whyte First, let me confess something. Even though as a young mother, I studied Steiner’s teachings and read You Are Your Child’s First Teacher, which stresses the importance of an at-home rhythm, I had a very hard time sticking to one. With
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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
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