To successfully improve my life one step at a time I have to nourish my physical, etheric, astral bodies, and my ego. In other words I will achieve happiness, health, and harmony when I take care of my body, my energy, my soul, and my spirit.
1. Step
Physical:
My body is made up of 70 % water. I replace all drinks including sodas, coffee, and juice with water. For an easier transition I drink herbal teas sweetened with agave or raw honey. The iced Red Zinger Tea from Celestial Seasonings is my favorite.
Etheric:
Using a brush, a piece of paper, and a water jar I experiment with watercolor.
Astral:
In a quiet place sitting comfortably I close my eyes and imagine my future. I dream big!
Ego:
Before bedtime I write down five things I am thankful for.
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| I do like this back post about this topic: http://theparentingpassageway.com/2009/01/11/transitioning-the-only-child-to-older-sibling/ but today I wanted to add a few things to that post. I still think siblings are the best gift you can give your child (see back post here: http://theparentingpassageway.com/2009/11/01/siblings-are-the-most-precious-gift/) . However, this is not to say the transition point of this is all roses. [...] |
| This evening, I was thinking and meditating and contemplating what blocks I am going to choose and/or design to finish our Third Grade year (I am now up to mid-March in planning). And this came to me: The Third Grade year really is about how we, as an individual, find a home here on Earth [...] |
| Sometimes we can smile with a small toddler as they reach for something in an obvious gesture of embrace but are still saying “no”. However, in general, many parents frequently feel frustrated when small children start using the word “no” (and yes, I do know this is because your precious one has said “no” literally [...] |
| Yes, this is where I am these days. Planning away, dreaming and thinking. And de-cluttering my house. I saw a post recently on Marsha Johnson’s list regarding doing Waldorf homeschooling with a First and Third Grader;I think one of the responses was something along the lines of try doing the Main Lesson for the First [...] |
| Here in the Deep South, many homeschooling families are starting around the end of August. If you think about it, that doesn’t leave too many weeks left s left to plan and do things. In my personal planning for homeschooling a third grader and a kindergartner, I am up to the middle of February. We [...] |
| Does it seem to anyone else that the amount of sibling bickering goes up in the Summer? I think this increase could be due to a combination of a changing/different rhythm to the day, (possibly one where less structure is present than during the school year) and the weather where the children are outside and [...] |
| The phone has been ringing off the hook this week for my volunteer work as a breastfeeding support counselor. I have been one busy person fielding calls! These calls are all related to breastfeeding, but many times the crux of the matter I find is more related to parenting than breastfeeding. How do we let [...] |
| “The Christopherus Waldorf Curriculum Overview For Homeschoolers” by Donna Simmons is an engaging resource that will take you grade by grade, topic by topic, through what is typically done in a Waldorf School, and most importantly, how to work with this in the home environment and how to use your home as the advantage that [...] |
| Well, we did it – we are now on the last chapter of “Discipline Without Distress” by Judy Arnall and ready to move on to our new book, “Hold On To Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers” by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate. You can order it through Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Hold-Your-Kids-Parents-Matter/dp/0375760288/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1279245565&sr=8-1 [...] |
| Attachment Parenting International is offering a teleseminar regarding “Separation Anxiety – Your Child’s and Yours” with special guest Elizabeth Pantley. This teleseminar promises to address the following questions: If you work so hard at creating attachment, why encourage separation? Do AP children have more separation anxiety than others? If you have a baby who won’t [...] |
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Monday, 31 May 2010 20:51 |
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So far we have looked at the four-fold human being and had an introduction to the temperaments. Today we are going to peek at HOW to use the temperaments as an ally in education and discipline. As I have said in the first two parts to this post, this information was presented to our homeschooling [...] |
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Sunday, 30 May 2010 22:02 |
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Those of you who read this blog know how very important I think the state of your marital union is for setting the tone in your home and for the health of your children in their future relationships. I have written quite a few blog posts on marriage, on challenges in marriage, and once a [...] |
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Friday, 28 May 2010 20:44 |
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In Waldorf Education, the four temperaments are seen as a tool to help us understand the child as a “whole” human being. The idea of the four temperaments was not new in Steiner’s time; it came about during the Greek times and again during the Middle Ages (some of you may remember hearing about the [...] |
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Thursday, 27 May 2010 08:31 |
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I have been thinking about the temperaments right along because I have been reading “Discussions With Teachers” in preparation for fall, and then a wonderful opportunity came to take a workshop about the temperaments last weekend (and yes, the baby came too ). I am looking forward to talking to you all about what I [...] |
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Monday, 24 May 2010 22:16 |
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This month I mentioned we are going to be looking at temperaments, love languages and nonviolent communication in an effort to be better wives, husbands, parents, friends and people. We kicked it off with a post on love, a post on patience, a post on changing our language and now this week we will be [...] |
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Sunday, 23 May 2010 21:02 |
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There was recently an excellent conversation on Mrs. Marsha Johnson’s list (
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) about three-year-olds and “temper tantrums”. One of the wonderful mothers on Mrs. Johnson’s list emailed me and stated how she always felt badly about that phrase: “temper tantrum”. I have to agree with her. If you think carefully about it, that is a [...] |
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Friday, 21 May 2010 16:44 |
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You can find Part One to this post here: http://theparentingpassageway.com/2010/05/14/how-to-plan-waldorf-homeschool-second-grade-part-one/ I broke my “no-photographs” rule simply because there are not many blogs with examples of Waldorf Second Grade and I wanted to show some sample works. January: More poetry. Snowy Village Math from Marsha Johnson’s files and I told Russian Fairy Tales at the end [...] |
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Thursday, 20 May 2010 11:41 |
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This is a big topic, and may take several posts. You may need a cup of tea for the length of this post! The question from the field is how to integrate Waldorf elements into a predominantly Christian focus in the First Grade – such as how one would teach letters through the Saints instead [...] |
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Thursday, 20 May 2010 09:54 |
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One of the mothers in my awesome homeschool group found this link! Check it out! It looks like an international house exchange/rent for people within the Waldorf community: http://waldorfhomeexchange.com/ Has anyone used this? I would love to hear some feedback! Blessings, Carrie |
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