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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
7d ago“When a town is desperate for child care, how much should communities bend on quality standards to get more kids covered?”
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- josefine...
Love and play are our natural states of being
Underneath everything is love. If I can’t feel the love, I know there’s something I’m not including in my experience. I must be slightly dissociated if I can’t access some touch of gratitude, love, awe, or flow.... Most of us have Community-Neglect
Common understanding that childhood emotional neglect is extremely damaging to a child. "Emotional neglect occurs when caregivers fail to provide the emotional support, validation, and attention children need during their formative years." I would argue most of us also... - Fooljeff...
Crawling towards enlightenment:
I thought my son was close to crawling months ago. He slowly gets a tiny bit closer every day. Up on his knees and hands right now, he rocks back and forth and then collapses forward, propelling him far enough to reach the toy. He has no real example of how to crawl.... - Philip...
I really like this approach to parenting, and it’s definitely the spirit that Liz and I have brought to parenting our son. That being said, I’m finding lately that my son benefits a lot when I bring a stronger boundary-setting presence than I usually do.... - renee...
Yeah, I agree the energy behind the words matters more. That’s an interesting thing your teacher said. Thinking of a kid that trips and falls. A mom might rush over in a panic, her anxiety amplifying the situation.... - annabeth...
- josefine...
Providing environments for learning
Imagine you’re attending a meditation workshop and the facilitator invites you to lean into stillness. After a few seconds, they start giving cues on how to be still, one after another, followed by reading a passage from a book about meditation, and then it ends.... - marcello...
Well said! Jack was asking about the difference between "lost" and "found" on the way to daycare today. He said "wherever we are, we're found." and I said, "absolutely." Lost then is a bit of a difficult concept to make sense of :).... - Jorlis...
Chronicles of a City Baby
I recently realize that I am not comfortable out in nature. In a way, I have always known this. My whole life I have preferred being indoors. Air conditioning. Heating. Comfort. Predictability. As a child, I preferred swimming pools over the ocean or rivers.... i really appreciate this point; for similar reasons I've been a little shy getting to into AI with my kids. This morning my son wanted to ask AI "how are electrons created?" which is freaking cool.... - JulieI...
When wisdom is opposite foolishness, we lose play, irreverence, jestering. When wisdom means knowledge we lose not-knowing, the joy of discovery, the mystery and our dance with it; we lose undoing, we lose the brilliance of not-here....