Calmly Active, Actively Calm: Creating a Calm, Centered Classroom

Guiding children to a place of calm focus, we can dive deeply with them into joyful academic learning and experiences that develop maturity, build character, and prepare them for their own set of unique challenges which they will meet in the years to come. "Spiritual education is training people for life.  By teaching children kindness, …

Happy Trails! A Kinder, Gentler Morning Routine

Recently, I was watching the movie "Single Moms' Club."   At the beginning of the movie, it shows each of the moms being so busy holding life together, that the only communication they have with their children is to bark out orders at them, interspersed with lines such as, "My day was so crazy, or "I …