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Teaching Children Gratitude {Book & Activity}
I am thrilled to be participating in 21 Days of Gratitude with several amazing bloggers. So, today, on this first rainy day of November, I am grateful for my HEALTH. I want my children to be grateful...
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Simplicity Parenting
“By simplifying, we protect the environment for childhood’s slow, essential unfolding of self.” Every day I strive to simplify and to create rhythm with our family. Honestly, most days I fail but the...
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12 Ways to Reconnect with Your Children
My family recently took a trip to Maui for vacation. My number one goal for the week was to reconnect as a family. Life has been a bit hectic lately. I’ve barely found time to breathe my own breath....
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Books for Raising Mindful Children
On our journey to homeschooling we continue to think long and hard about what and how to teach our two boys asking questions like “Who are they?” “How do they learn?” “What do we want for them?” Time...
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Teaching Mindfulness to Kids
“My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call education of the heart. Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects,...
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5 Pinners Every Parent Should Follow
I am a huge fan of Pinterest personally and professionally. I’m inspired every day to create, to laugh, to chat and discuss modern parenting issues and concerns, to learn, to cook (yup, even me), to...
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Easy Ways to Recharge
This list is going to seem obvious but hopefully serve as a helpful reminder that we are in control of feeling better, more present and happier. More than being in control, the decisions we make to...
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Parenting Mantras & Free Parenting Book
Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts. – Jean Cocteau I am in Santa Monica this weekend visiting my sister. She is 28...
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Yoga Books for Children
We try to do a yoga exercise at least once a day. We’ve even had a yoga play date that included a mini yoga session for kids. Mindfulness and creating a stillness is something I strive to attain...
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Simple Ways to Find Your Way Back to Mindful Parenting
I want to be a mindful parent. I think about this idea of “parenting with presence” a lot. On this early morning I can’t sleep. So, I am up writing to clear my head. As I sit in a rocking chair staring...
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Parenting: A Taste of Love & Logic
I started a Love and Logic parenting class last week. Parenting With Love And Logic is an approach where the goal is that “children experience firm limits and accountability within the context of...
View ArticleSimplicity Living & Parenting
I think about simplifying my family’s life on a daily basis. Like most of us, I am a busy person, often over stimulated by the things and people in my environment and rarely give my family and myself...
View ArticleAuthentic Experiences for Kids
Children need real, authentic experiences with the earth. Children learn through their senses. They must have real experiences to be effective. I recently posted on an eye opening exercise for...
View ArticleLove & Logic Parenting – Thoughts on Chores
A few weeks ago I wrote about Love & Logic. I am currently experimenting with the approach. What I love about any of these disciplines is that we parents can take from them what works for our...
View ArticleBullying & What You Can Do (A Pledge & Giveaway)
Thanks to TakePart for sponsoring today’s discussion One amazing take away from Montessori training was the child development learning. A prerequisite is a fundamental child development class, which is...
View ArticleEarth Day Every Day {Our Ideal Day}
I wish Earth Day could be Every Day. Why can’t it be? I declare it. Today we went screen free for the first time in a long while. We don’t watch tv but we rely on the iPad and “shows” via digital...
View ArticleAnti-Bias Activity for Preschoolers
Here is a quick presentation to introduce Culture & Anti-Bias to young children. Format: Group Presentation Age: 2.5 – 6 years old Materials Needed: Various types of flower to make a bouquet, vase...
View ArticleObservation in Early Childhood
“The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.” ~...
View Article10 Ways to Create an Outdoor Classroom at Home
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Kiwi Crate. All opinions are 100% mine. One of my big goals this coming year is to create an Outdoor Learning environment for my sons. I am not...
View ArticleWeekend Reads
{Thank you WikiMedia Commons for this image.} Weekend Reads I am so impressed with all the writing and thinking going on out there in cyber space. I am inspired to think more on topics, especially...
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