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Grandparents in Family Life
April 26th, 2018“Cherish your human connections – your relationships with friends and family.” […]
Read MoreThe 7 C’s
April 13th, 2018It’s Spring – or at least it is trying to be Spring! I find this is a good time of year to pull the 7 C’s out of the closet and freshen up my thinking. I started using different versions of the 7 C’s over 20 years ago when I read an article about Mihaly […]
Read MoreSharing
December 11th, 2017
The love of one’s environment is the secret of all man’s progress and the secret of social evolution. It becomes manifest in people who have survived life’s vicissitudes, who have been able to keep their integrity, or who have rediscovered such integrity in themselves. […]
Read MoreThe Courtesy of Connection
December 1st, 2017
Shaking hands is a wonderful way to begin and end the day! Beginning at 8:30 I shake at least 15 primary hands, 20 if you include miscellaneous parents, and if the adolescents happen to come down the sidewalk when I am greeting the primary students out on the curb, add 30 more. The toddlers don’t […]
Read MoreWe Appreciate When We Participate
November 20th, 2017
Daily life at MVM is very busy and industrious. If you haven’t been at school between 9:30 and 11:00, you should consider coming. This is when all the action takes place. Sometimes, if I am very quiet and still, I can feel the soft vibration of everyone “doing”. Whether we are working independently side by […]
Read MoreActive Learning
November 15th, 2017Even in the age of Google and Yahoo, when I want a definition for a word, I still turn to Merriam-Webster. I like the hardback dictionary; I feel like I am learning something. My father built a shelf in our house to hold the family dictionary – the one he received when he graduated from […]
Read MoreUncertainty
November 2nd, 2017Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions. Alfie Kohn November is here! The trees are losing their leaves, the colder nights are here and interesting behavior is surfacing on the playground and in the classrooms, and I am receiving e-mail inquiries as to how children are adjusting […]
Read MoreBoundaries
September 28th, 2017Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them. Maria Montessori The key word in this quote is “reasonable.” I am often asked in my parenting classes, “what’s the difference between boundaries and rules? Rules are made to be followed, aren’t they? Otherwise a consequence is in […]
Read MoreWorking to Balance
September 1st, 2016