Copywork: it’s one the concepts I love best about Charlotte Mason style education. I agree that having kids start writing on their own at too young an age doesn’t teach them good writing, and can enforce mistakes they are making. Charlotte Mason used Biblical scripture in her copywork, so I’m collecting sources of copywork that I find more suited to a secular education style. I wanted to begin a collection…
Hope, Springtime and Jane Goodall
This week I started a three-week meditation series with the resounding theme of HOPE. Springtime is a natural season to renew our hope and optimism about present and future possibilities. It’s the message of the time of year–birth, renewal– from Imbolc in February to Ostara, Easter and Spring equinox in the months following. While we think of New Year as January 1st, in the dead of winter, Chinese, Tibetan and…
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THE guide for mindful parenting
I consider THE book on mindfulness as a parenting style and family lifestyle to be Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting by Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn. Having purchased this book years ago, I read it in bits and pieces as time allowed. (One of my greatest luxuries since becoming a parent is the ability to read multiple chapters of a book in one sitting.) It is well worth…
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