Tips & Treasures & Thoughts

It’s very hard for me to accept that all people aren’t generally motivated by good.  My work with young children, motherhood, and my Sagitarrian sign, I guess, make me hopeful that [...]

Two resounding messages from my last year or so of work with Dio Miranda is the importance of both taking time to create and taking time to do nothing. It’s is so easy to spend every waking [...]

Kids know how to get what they need. Today, a hungry friend wanting to convince his teacher that he needed to eat early said, “I have diarrhea, so I need you to feed me pasta now!”. [...]

Not long ago, while looking for the best pediatrician for my soon-to-be-born daughter, I asked a “candidate” pediatrician what makes the “flu season”. The answer was, “Well, it means that a lot [...]

In case anyone has the illusion that the owner of a preschool has the answer to every child and family question, and that her own family skips through fields of lavender giggling each weekend, [...]

I don’t currently receive any magazine subscriptions, but I have received several gift subscriptions over the last couple of years. Add these to the few magazines I can’t resist at [...]

On my travels, I sometimes run into someone that is willing to learn more about what I preach with so much passion. The following article was written by one such person who felt healthier as she [...]

Several of our friends in Transitional PreK have enjoyed singing “Red Means Stop”! If you’d like to hear it, or download it, here is a link: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mrheath05 [...]

One of my greatest joys as a parent was riding my new (used) bike with my girls to school today. We had to leave by seven to make the mile-long ride to their school. We had to arrive early for [...]

Eliminating deodorant/antiperspirant from my life has been a long-time goal. Stinking has not been a goal, and so it has only been recently that the planets have aligned for the good of my pits [...]