What comes out of your mouth? “Look at me when I am talking to you!” “Sit still and listen!”? I, myself, am guilty of both mandates. I learn by looking at someone and I learn best when sitting to listen. Yet, my own children taught me how differently we each are...
What happens when your curriculum doesn’t come in a box? What if your most powerful lessons are born from broken bones, backyard chickens, and unexpected redirections? Hi, I’m Cindy Goldade—a lifelong educator, a new grandma (!), and a homeschool mom of three...
Family Session: Take 2! Same family: Two parents with three “kids” ages 25, 18 and 14. Adoption. Trauma. Diagnoses and labels. Three to four hours together in the frozen tundra of Minnesota on a Saturday before the holidays. Using prayer and intention, the priority...
What is your role in the family? Are you the oldest or the baby? Are you the clown or the serious one? Are you the planner/organizer or the one who goes-with-the-flow? Are you the caretaker or do you require being taken care of? Rescuer or the rescued? Leader or...
**Written after Regional Competition; finally published after State Competition. Direct and Indirect How does my work in Educational Kinesiology and Brain Gym® align with coaching horse knowledge bowl teams? Drawing out is a key concept in both fields. One junior team...
Push and Pull What is a parent’s role? As I help one of my kiddos study business and marketing, we discussed the concepts of push and pull, as it relates to the internet world. Do you get notifications pushed to you? Do certain sites pull information from you? Let’s...
Hubby and I agreed long ago to not be animal owners. Then there were kids. A few years into parenting, animals joined the family. As with anything, there is life and there is death. Both are filled with learning opportunities. Bunnies, Dog, Chickens, and Horses...
Traveling. Dining out. Hosting. “What’s the plan?” asks my mom. With three teenagers, horses, chickens, and a dog, traveling has become a bit cumbersome. With our kids each recognizing their unique physiological responses to gluten, dining out is challenging. So that...
“MOM! MMMom! Mommmmm! Let me do it myself! Don’t do my work for me! I can do it!” These statements seem a cause for celebration. Dr. Maria Montessori encourages independence and interdependence for all ages. Her writings talk about helping children help themselves. At...
To-do lists can get long. Choosing a priority can result in uncertainty. Typically, in such a situation, the human response goes one of three ways: Ostrich: bury the head in the sand Energizer Bunny: look really busy doing not much of anything Balanced Bird:...
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