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Monthly Guides are Back as a Monthly and Yearly Program

Celebrate Daily Life with Children 

Focus on a simple, natural slower paced, soulful life with children by implementing daily, weekly and monthly rhythms through the year full of nurturing, artistic, domestic and social activities that deeply nourish family life for children and adults alike. Protect the wonder of childhood and revisit your own sense of awe. Bring gratitude and reverence into daily life in an authentic manner. Connect with others on this path.

The Monthly Program is an online workshop with talks, presentations, videos, guest speakers and conversations, packets of supportive material (see below for more on packets) and regular support through the month.

The Yearly Program builds through the year on the monthly topics and provides a rich and interwoven experience of the essential elements of early childhood with time to slowly and gradually bring them into your life and revisit them from different angles through the year, thus deepening your experience. If something does not make sense at first, in looking at in with another lens the following month, it becomes clear.

  • For those who become Tear Round Members in this first year, I am making it a Lifelong Membership. 
  • Year round members will have a special planning session this summer to sketch out the school year for 2012 -2013. 
  • Monthly Members may return to the month they are in for a small refresher fee next year

Sign up link is here or at the bottom of this page.

I am so very excited to share with you the news of the return of the Celebrating the Rhythm of Life in Caring for Children through the Year materials. I have read all of your very kind, honest and thorough comments in the feedback and taken them to heart. The new format retains all of the elements you love with some expansion in a few areas. I've been striving to keep it all very simple, easy for you to read and digest. I have also made it more process and community oriented program this time around. 

The material is available in  packets (pdf) and online with a discussion group and focus topic posts from me. If you need to see it in action, I'll make a video. Participants may sign up for the month or for the school year, from September to July. Year round participants are lifetime participants and may return next year at no charge.

Each month the material for The Celebrating the Rhythm of Life in Caring for Children Program includes:
  • Materials packet with verse, song, circle, finger play, story, activities
  • Daily and Weekly rhythm plan (if you want it sketched out ~ it's here)
  • Menus with recipes based on Steiner's grains (breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea)
  • Handwork for each month with hands on tutorial
  • Festival life ~ background and celebration ideas
  • The Start up guide (new)
  • Seasonal foods to plant, harvest and prepare with children
  • My favorite book suggestions
  • In the Morning Garden ( a tip each month for group programs)
  • Afterschool/Enrichment Activities, Festival Life, Movement Games and Stories for the grade school child, includes circle suitable for first, second, third grader)
  • Focus topic for each month
  • Pedagogy behind the topic
  •  Practical activity with monthly topic
  • Exercise to do with the topic ~ practice
  • Reflection ~ questions for nurturing the inner life
  • Private online discussion group
  • Posts through the month on the focus topic
  • Ideas for creating community where you live
Come join in, create community, find support, receive encouragement!


After many years of giving freely to help others along the Waldorf Way, I have made the decision to charge a fee for this material to help me continue to do this work and support my family. The Wonder of Childhood will continue to be free of a subscription charge.

This monthly or year long program membership guides and supports parents, child care providers, homemakers, early childhood educators and those who work with young children to find a deeper understanding of the needs of children, Waldorf education, self knowledge, rhythm, strength, nourishment and community, in the task of caring for children.


For more information, visit the new FAQ page



November's focus topic is Awe, Wonder and Reverence as the Basis for Gratitude: Small words, deeds and gestures in daily life that foster love and appreciation for the world in the young child.



December's focus topic is the spiritual element of Waldorf early childhood. We'll talk about the child as a spiritual being, birth, protection of the child's senses, angels, night time meditation and working with the angels. We'll look at ways to nourish family life and foster child development and bring awe, wonder and gratitude alive, bring children into cooking and household chores, nourish growing bodies and create a home culture of awe, wonder and reverence around daily life that is rooted in the spiritual elements of early childhood during this full and often too busy season. 




January's Focus topic is Play in early childhood. We'll look at why play is important, how to foster play, what gets in the way of play, how to create an environment that invites play and how to bring a child who is struggling with play into self initiated imaginative play. We'll make toys for the children in our lives with tutorials and resources for materials as part of the program.




The focus topic for the month of February is Rhythm.

  • We'll explore what is rhythm and look at sample rhythms of the day and the week.
  • We'll look at what gets in the way of rhythm.
  • We'll look at how you can make your rhythm flow through the day.
  • We'll look at how rhythm can help your child be more imaginative, playful and creative.
  • We look at how our meals can be healthier and more pleasant with rhythm.
  • We'll look at peaceful bedtimes and restful sleep that come out of a healthy rhythm.
  • We'll look at the rhythm of housework
  • We'll look at how rhythm makes transitions smoother.
  • We'll examine how a strong rhythm supports homeschooling.
  • We'll look at how a strong rhythm makes home a sanctuary for the school child.
  • We'll look at how to put together a rhythm that works in your life.
  • We'll finding a starting point and implement our own rhythm and build on it over four weeks.
  • We'll look at how rhythm supports daily life with children and helps us carve out time for ourselves.
  • We'll look at breathing and healthy rhythm.
  • We'll have daily reminders and enthusiastic support.

Our very special Guest Speaker is Lynn Jericho of Imagine Self. 
We'll have an open conversation with Lynn for course participants.


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Questions? E-mail me at: Monthlyguides@yahoo.com


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