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Talking In Pictures To Small Children
A small child under the age of seven needs to hear you paint a picture with your words instead of a direct command. This can really be a very difficult thing for us to do as adults, and as such we...
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Children Who Slap Faces And Other Fun Behaviors
(This is the tabloid edition of The Parenting Passageway today, you know, kind of like, Men Who Do Terrible Things And The Women Who Love Them or something like that…) Let’s see…the fun behavior of the...
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How To Best Support Your Child’s Development Ages Birth Through Three
I spoke last night at The Waldorf Connection regarding development from a Waldorf perspective within the first seven years. I will be posting some notes on this blog from my talk because I believe it...
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Guest Post: Meaningful Work For Toddlers
(I asked my dear friend Liza to write this guest post because she has experience in weaving a life full of meaningful tasks that her twin toddlers do to help nurture their home. What a wonderful...
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More About How To Create Meaningful Work For Toddlers
“We have to remember that there is nothing more “enriching” for a young child than exploring his own world of home, filled with natural playthings and the work of caring for a family – housework,...
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This Could Be My Favorite Post
…. ( A reader alerted me on 11/7/2012 that this link didn’t work and she couldn’t find the original post. On quick search I couldn’t either, but this post is similar:...
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Nourishing Your Toddler
I wrote this post quite a while ago regarding the years of birth through age two and a half or so here:...
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The Essential Soul Tasks Of The Early Years
Dearest Friends, During my time of moving houses, I have had several very important issues swirling about in my head with no opportunity to write them down until tonight. So, you will be seeing some...
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Boundaries
Friends, I have been hearing from a lot of you recently via email and many of you are struggling with boundaries in your lives. I am not a counselor, and I am not a psychologist, but I wanted to tell...
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Attachment And Individualization
I think as homeschooling families, one of our main goals is always the connection of the family and how we stay attached to each other in a society that sometimes doesn’t seem to value that at all....
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Life As A Means
In the tradition of Rudolf Steiner’s inner work according to the rhythm of each day of the week, today (Wednesday) is the day of “Right Standpoint”. It is this idea of ordering our lives with...
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Creating Your Own Forest or Farm Homeschool Kindergarten Experience
I have written about my fascination with the forest kindergarten/farm school movement in back posts with detailed links. I recently found this link interviewing Erin Kenny, founder of Cedarsong...
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How To Best Support Your Child’s Development Ages Birth Through Three
I spoke last night at The Waldorf Connection regarding development from a Waldorf perspective within the first seven years. I will be posting some notes on this blog from my talk because I believe it...
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More About How To Create Meaningful Work For Toddlers
“We have to remember that there is nothing more “enriching” for a young child than exploring his own world of home, filled with natural playthings and the work of caring for a family – housework,...
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This Could Be My Favorite Post
…. ( A reader alerted me on 11/7/2012 that this link didn’t work and she couldn’t find the original post. On quick search I couldn’t either, but this post is similar:...
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Nourishing Your Toddler
I wrote this post quite a while ago regarding the years of birth through age two and a half or so here:...
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The Essential Soul Tasks Of The Early Years
Dearest Friends, During my time of moving houses, I have had several very important issues swirling about in my head with no opportunity to write them down until tonight. So, you will be seeing some...
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Boundaries
Friends, I have been hearing from a lot of you recently via email and many of you are struggling with boundaries in your lives. I am not a counselor, and I am not a psychologist, but I wanted to tell...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Attachment And Individualization
I think as homeschooling families, one of our main goals is always the connection of the family and how we stay attached to each other in a society that sometimes doesn’t seem to value that at all....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Parenting Toddlers: A Hands-On Adventure!
Toddlers (which I deem ages one through three, with ages three and four being “nursery school” aged, and ages 5 and 6 being kindergarten aged) are in a very special place in life. They are all about...
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