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

I thought I had time… When my adopted son first came home with us from the hospital, I thought I had time. Time to prepare for his...

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

Parents are looking for opportunities to connect with one another, so at Rainbow Bridge LifeWays Program we strengthened community...

When our school, Homeschool Garden, started 15 years ago we tried to do all the work ourselves. Staff gathered materials and worked to...

When I enrolled in the LifeWays training, I had no real connection to the lives of children and families. Like many Millenials, the last...

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...

It’s a puzzle to me how and why so many of the Waldorf and LifeWays early childhood programs I have visited turn on some kind of...

For young children, it is good to have very clear routines and rituals around sleep. It helps to think about what you are doing for the...

This is the first of hopefully many “sneak peeks” into the LifeWays training program. Our aim is to offer you a glimpse of what happens...

When we are creating a work space – an office, a classroom, a retail establishment – there are certain tools we need for specific tasks....

Seven years ago this October, Magnolia Blossom Preschool opened its doors inside Harvest Homes Assisted Living facility in Portland, OR....

The child who doesn’t participate, what are they asking us? What is behind that choice? Most likely it has to do with a fear of doing it...

The teacher begins to hum a little tune, a little tune that she uses to gather the children into circle. One or two of them come. Most...

“This is an excerpt of a weekly Curriculum Guide shared with families in the Honey Bee Nursery at Emerson Waldorf School , NC, during...

Steiner-based, early childhood settings abound with rich opportunities for the development of math and science concepts. This may be...

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

This the final article in a series that has focused on the development of social ability throughout early childhood. “We can be...

This is the fourth article in a series that will focus on the development of social ability throughout early childhood. Our children...

This the third article in a series that will focus on the development of social ability throughout early childhood. This month we look...