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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 …
March 15, 2020 A person’s a person, no matter how small. – Dr. Seuss Helping their child learn to use the toilet is one of those things that strikes fear into the hearts of many parents. When do we start? How do we start? What if my child refuses? One thing parents quickly learn is …
March 1, 2020 The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words. – Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. …
February 16, 2020 Figure out the rhythm of life and live in harmony with it. – Lao Tzu Rudolf Steiner, founder of Waldorf education, said,” It is important to remember a universal rule: rhythm replaces strength!” Students in our LifeWays Early Childhood training and our online courses tell us all the time that creating a …
November 10, 2019 “I like to take my time I mean that when I want to do a thing I like to take my time to do it right.” – Mr. Rogers Our blog post today features a reflection from one of our LifeWays Training Students, Maria Chang from Fremont, CA, about her favorite songs …
October 20, 2019 Get rhythm when you get the blues. -Johnny Cash Today, we have a guest post from LifeWays graduate Emary Williams: “R h y t h m. There is so much magic in this simple concept. When I first encountered Waldorf education, I saw the beautifully painted watercolor daily rhythm charts in …
March 3, 2019 The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality. – Conan O’Brien The theme for this month of March in our Living Arts Through the Seasons online course for parents is Clarity. We, like the groundhog, have nestled in all winter long and …
March 18, 2018 Those who flow as life flows know they need no other force. ― Lao Tzu It’s maple syruping time in the northern states. The combination of cold nights followed by warmer days allows for the most generous sap flow in the sugar maples, and the syrup makers head to the woods to …
Dahlia writes: Starting in first grade, our son began to use words that were not part of our household such as, “I hate you” to his little sister. I started to talk to him about how powerful our words are and shared Dr. Emoto’s work in his book, The Hidden Messages in Water, where he put …
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 …