RIE in Real Life…it’s bananas
Sometimes I get an idea for a topic for this newsletter from something I see or hear during my week […]
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Sometimes I get an idea for a topic for this newsletter from something I see or hear during my week […]
Read moreAs always, I hope this message finds you well. You may have noticed that my weekly newsletter hasn’t hit your […]
Read moreFrom the Parents’ Tao te Ching First, to all those who celebrate, I wish you a happy and healthy new […]
Read moreOver the past week, I’ve had a few new families come to join my classes (side note: I love the […]
Read moreThis Friday finds me still in Central Virginia with family, and though it has been over a week since I’ve […]
Read moreA year ago, I barely knew what a webinar was. This week, I hosted one. What a long, strange year […]
Read moreMagda Gerber said that we often underestimate babies and overestimate toddlers. It’s true: since babies are born so dependent on […]
Read moreA while ago, RIE asked its Associates (of whom there are now close to 70, and not just here in […]
Read moreTaking care of difficult feelings. That was the title of the chapter we discussed last week in the Raising Good […]
Read moreIn the RIE Win I shared yesterday, I talked about the heart of the Educaring Approach. Yes, the organization calls […]
Read moreEarlier this week, I watched a video entitled Parenting in a Pandemic with Britta Bushnell, a birth educator many of […]
Read more(Beginning in mid-March 2020, when the world shut down, I began a bi-weekly conversation with the parents who had been […]
Read more(Beginning in mid-March 2020, when the world shut down, I began a bi-weekly conversation with the parents who had been […]
Read moreLast night’s all too brief webinar with Dan Siegel was a really excellent cliff’s note version of the book, The […]
Read moreResilience. That’s my word of the week. I know, I know…I said “joy” was, but as it turns out, resilience […]
Read moreOkay, so I’ve been teasing it for a while now, and here it is: my synopsis and review of The […]
Read more(Beginning in mid-March 2020, when the world shut down, I began a bi-weekly conversation with the parents who had been […]
Read more(Beginning in mid-March 2020, when the world shut down, I began a bi-weekly conversation with the parents who had been […]
Read moreLast night my mind was on struggle. I imagine struggle isn’t far from your minds most days…be it on the […]
Read moreOver the last couple of weeks, I’ve been talking to several people who are new to RIE …parents of young […]
Read moreKumiko Akiyama (Kumi) was my student for one year during the second portion of her training to become a RIE […]
Read moreSeveral years ago, I was asked to write about RIE using the prompt “Begin as you wish to proceed” for […]
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