By this time, children and families are pretty well settled back into a school routine. We were sad to say goodbye to the more relaxed summertime when days could be slightly more spacious. The reality of timeliness and disciplined responsibility for schoolwork probably felt like a pair of stiff, new school shoes. But now they are broken in, and the ... Read More ►
Where Is Your “I”? Discovering the Joy of Connection David Tresemer, PhD A person feeling besieged by life, asking for help, with a list of physical and emotional complaints, sits across from a counselor. Each of us has sat on either side of that encounter. A counselor can include an uncle, aunt, friend, licensed clinical psychologist, an employee of a ... Read More ►
Love Bravely: Exploring the Transformative Power of Music and the Arts Matt Matre Sawaya Over the past few years, I’ve experienced divisions between people in a way I never had before. I found myself thinking very differently about things compared with some of the people I’m close to. This started happening all around me—between family members, friends, and colleagues. “Fire ... Read More ►
Fulfilling Our Promise: Becoming Inclusive Waldorf Communities Vicki Larson Our Alma Alma Partners is a multiracial, multigenerational group of eleven individuals from diverse backgrounds living in the US and Canada. We launched the organization in the spring of 2020, founded on the belief that institutions are, first and foremost, communities that have an opportunity and a responsibility to build cultures of belonging, courage, ... Read More ►
Overload: Overstimulated and Underprotected in the Modern Media World Nancy Blanning First published Winter 2014 Information, useful and trivial, wanted or not, bombards us constantly. Our senses are continually stimulated. In self-protection, I have personally found an email access that avoids a “home page”; I no longer am assaulted with the latest celebrity news, nor the disaster of the ... Read More ►
Movement in Early Childhood: Developmental Magic? Or Nourishment? Nancy Blanning First published Spring 2010 Early childhood is the gateway to healthy development and to a sense of comfort and happiness in one’s own physical body. Much of this is accomplished through play and the freedom of movement that play invites. Not so long ago when childhood was less structured ... Read More ►
The Little Child’s To-Do List Nancy Blanning First published Winter 2019 Time has us in such a rush. There seems to be some unofficial law written into our societal clock that everything has to go fast. Now does not exist. We are oriented only toward the next moment, which we are propelling ourselves toward. We adults remark that we ... Read More ►
Allowing Time: Letting Go of Expectations Helps Young Children Find the Joy of Accomplishment Nancy Blanning First published Spring 2013 A recent visit to the Waldorf Forest Kindergarten in Saratoga Springs, New York, resonates in memory in a special way. The children whose parents have chosen this program have a consciously simplified environment freed of the temptations and distractions ... Read More ►
Wreaths or Books Mary Lou Sanelli First published Summer 2011 The first thing I saw this morning when I drove out to Fort Worden (in Port Townsend, Washington) was a huge wild rose bush, the biggest I’ve ever seen, last season’s hips still glowing orange, if a little puckered with age. But who isn’t? It’s been a while ... Read More ►
Too Late To Hide Mary Lou Sanelli First published Summer 2020 I’m afraid I was one of the “selfish Seattle people” who went outside to take in, no, breathe in, that glorious sunny Saturday back in March. It’s no excuse, but like everyone, I was worried and afraid. These feelings drove me out the door, onto the streets, which ... Read More ►
