Posts by: Lisa
Dear Readers,
Come celebrate the greening of May with musings from Maureen Wheeler on weeds, wonder and the goodness around us with recipes for seasonal foods too including rhubarb fool. Lots more coming for May celebrations, butter making, how-to-build a Maypole and May Crown weaving, how-to-throw a potluck gathering as well as Fairy […]
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Waldorf education is about teaching out of universal, human principles, whatever the subject and an orderly Education of Head, Heart and Hands is central to these principles.
However, handwork and crafts are to have a specific task within the context of the curriculum, namely to awaken creative powers which would find fruitful and useful application in as […]
Continue Reading →Happy Fathers Day to my Dad, my children’s dad, and all the dads out there! May your day be filled with special treatment!
Some of our favorite gifts on Father’s Day:
Blueberry muffins for breakfast Coupon book for back rubs, car wash, foot massage On the Magazine we have an article from Christine Natale that […]
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Still “trailing clouds of glory,” First Graders enter the Waldorf classroom with great expectations. If they have gone to a Waldorf Kindergarten before coming to Grade One, then they are not yet writing or reading, and their arithmetic skills may be limited to some simple counting. Not having had academic subjects forced upon them in their […]
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As a native of Japan, and having family members and many friends in the midst of the devastation, I continue to struggle to find strength to overcome my own fear and sadness. Yet, a question came to me, how do I talk to my four year old about this? This awoke me. I felt called to stand up […]
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December 2012 Parenting The roll of the Doll in the Life of the Child :: A Interview with Christine Schreier Education Nourishment Living Op Ed by Lynn Jericho […]
Continue Reading →Dear Readers,
I feel so blessed to have so many shining, delightful and wondrous people contribute to this magazine. In order for you to get to know them a little better, each month I will interview one of our columnists. Our first interview is with someone I met online many years ago, perhaps even fourteen […]
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“There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.”- Elizabeth Lawrence
The young child is still in a consciousness of at-one-with-the natural world. The child of first, second and third grade as well as kindergarteners and nursery children […]
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Creating beautiful, nourishing meals is a work of art.
Clearly, there is more to nourishing our bodies than the food we eat.
It is a soulful act.
Tending the […]
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Here’s a peek at Nature Tables from all around. Send us a photo of yours and we’ll post it here with a link back to your site.
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This festive table for February is from homeschooler Jamie Bennett…
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This is from Marianne Frost’s […]
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