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Tuesday Tip: Lessons from a Stormy Day
For an introduction to my “Tuesday Tips and Thursday Thoughts” series please see the article “An Invitation to Embrace Your Journey and Follow Mine.” These short thoughts/tips are meant to be a brief and efficient way to offer a quick touch of inspiration for the day. Lessons from a Stormy...
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Tuesday Tip: Who Will You Take on Your Journey?
For an introduction to my “Tuesday Tips and Thursday Thoughts” series please see the article “An Invitation to Embrace Your Journey and Follow Mine.” These short thoughts/tips are meant to be a brief and efficient way to offer a quick touch of inspiration for the day. Who Will You Take...
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Ask a Waldorf Teacher: How Can I Share Cultural Stories?
Every Wednesday our members get to ask Waldorf teacher Diane Power questions about their homeschooling experience, Waldorf education and more. These Q & A sessions are posted on the member blog every week so you have access to all the past Q & A sessions. Become a member of Earthschooling to...
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Tuesday Tips: Is Gluten-Free Necessary?
For an introduction to our “Tuesday Tips and Thursday Thoughts” series please see the article “An Invitation to Embrace Your Journey and Follow Mine.” These short thoughts/tips are meant to be a brief and efficient way to offer a quick touch of inspiration for the day. Is Gluten Free Necessary?...
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Preparing Food Ahead for College Student, Single Person or Family
Note: I’ve included our video illustrations below as 2-minute mini videos so you don’t have to watch one long video. You can just watch the little video clips you want to. However, if you do want to see the full 30-minute video you can view the complete video HERE. As...
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A Sensory Meditation Room For Adults & Children
Note: The computerized aspect of this experience is optional. You can use whatever tools you want to create your own sensory meditation room. Mine actually does not look like this anymore. I change it every month or so…and electronics are not always involved. I love experimenting and trying new things!...
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Book Review: How to Bake Pi: Inspiration for Teachers/Parents
In Waldorf education math for a first and second grader is a joyous experience. This continues through the lower grades with math being integrated into drawing, form drawing, art, hands-on activities, and handwork. However, as the children get older and the math becomes more challenging it becomes increasingly difficult to...
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Save Monarch Butterflies with Fun Educational Activities
Biology, botany, gardening, farming, conservation, civics, entomology, math, science, language, art and history – that is what children will be learning this summer while engaging in these fun monarch-focused activities. However, they will be having so much fun they won’t realize how much they are learning. I remember purchasing some...
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Are You Being Misled by Natural Healing Articles?
A student at The Avicenna Institute brought up a good point in their paper the other day. They mentioned that a lot of studies that are done on the benefits of different foods are done by the government or by the food industry itself. They wanted to know how they could tell...
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E-mail CustomerService@TheBEarthInstitute.com Phone 800-630-9167 Text 571-327-8495 Mail The BEarth Institute, Inc. PO Box 7513 Urbandale, IA. 50323...
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Enjoyable, Easy and Effective Dieting With Your Temperament
by Kristie Burns, Mh, ND, Ph.D. of The BEarth Institute and The Avicenna Institute of Natural Healing Did you know that your temperament affects what kind of diet is most effective for your physiological and psychological type? You may need to be on a diet for many reasons – weight loss, health reasons,...
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Big Holiday Giveaway!
We will be giving away 3-4 items a week from the pictures on this BLOG from today until December 18th, 2013 (hopefully the items we send on the 18th will arrive by the 25th!). To enter in the running for one of the prizes you need to make a comment...
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Why Waldorf-inspired Education Creates Great Scientists
One of the many reasons we decided to base Earthschooling on Waldorf-inspired principles was because of the strong science base Waldorf-inspired education provides. When I share this thought with parents and teachers the first questions they ask is (something like), “How can Waldorf-inspired education create great scientists? And what do...
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Dealing with Blame and Guilt on a Healing Journey
Over the past two decades of consulting I’ve met a large number of clients who are letting blame and guilt negatively affect their lives. This blame and guilt not only motivates their actions in negative ways, but also adds stress which reflects in increased system imbalances. For many years I...
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Portable Rejuvenation: Increasing Your Energy Levels Naturally
There was a period of my life when I was traveling on a weekly basis and/or moving a few times a year. During this time it was near impossible to find supplies I needed and was familiar with during my trips and bringing everything I ‘needed’ along was not really...
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Continuity in Curriculum: Waldorf Curriculum: Horizontal and Vertical Alignment
As I was working on the final touches of the seventh grade curriculum last month it struck me how many times I said “Remember when you studied this in 3rd grade…” or “you can see how this history lesson relates to the math lesson we are doing this year…” When...
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A Waldorf Main Lesson Book: Where are the Worksheets and Exams?
Imagine a world with no quizzes, textbooks or worksheets. That sounds like it would be a dream school for most children! This is what it is like in a Waldorf school. In fact, Waldorf education engages the student in the learning process to the extent where worksheets or exams would...
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Homeschooling Challenges: Turning a “Bad Day” into a “Great Day”
Sometimes a morning just looks impossible. Of course I have an ideal vision of what I want it to be – filled with smiles, gently stretching, perhaps a song and a prayer, good food and a sunny clean home. However, this morning started out to be anything but that! I...
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