I have found that the “typical kindergarten circle” learned in Waldorf early childhood training needs to be simplified and changed in...

Anyone who spends time with children soon comes to recognize that the child’s most basic needs take precedence over everything else in...

One of the tasks of the growing child and one of the functions of parenting is to bring the child into rhythm.  It may seem as if the...

Joy is the essence of early childhood, and I have the great fortune of swimming in it three full days a week with nine three- to...

Creating and sharing therapeutic stories with a child can feel like you have some real magic in your parenting pocket!  Stories reach the...

Greetings from sunny Northeast Florida, home to Seaside Playgarden , a LifeWays Representative Program, and the first in Florida.  The...

The themes of nourishment and reverence led me to do my LifeWays project on the apron, both studying its use and making two aprons that I...

I believe that one of the greatest contributors to disconnection from our children today is technology. I feel it is has somewhat...

Story time has always been one of my favorite parts of the day for my own creative exploration. I’m an artist by nature, so the handwork...

When I started teaching over three and a half decades ago, I was looking for a model of human development to ground my approach and...

Before I had children I didn’t even know how to spell “rhythm.” Little did I know then how much I would come to appreciate yearly, weekly, daily and even smaller rhythms that would come to support my life and our family.