http://rivieraplayschool.com/parenting-from-balance/please-don%e2%80%99t-hurry-your-child-by-melody-elder A Mindful Garden Where Active Minds Blossom - A preschool located in Redondo Beach & Torrance... Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:14:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://rivieraplayschool.com/parenting-from-balance/please-don%e2%80%99t-hurry-your-child-by-melody-elder/comment-page-1#comment-120 Earl Shmabukuro Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:54:05 +0000 http://rivieraplayschool.com/?p=1333#comment-120 Melody, mmm, what a great message. I found this site because of a friend who said I'd resonate with it--and happily I also got to see your article. As a recent 3rd grade teacher, I often felt as the years went by that the nature of curriculum dissemination to the students was too much in light of the imbalance with the social, developmental, creative, and personal needs of my students and myself as their teacher. It caused much inner conflict within me, what with my own search for personal meaning, balance, and a happy medium between the norm of my district's expectations and particular SOS area and my own growing concerns about the lack of true honoring of our children's emotional and social health and healthy development of an authentic expression of their being. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and compassion in your writings. Thank you for sharing yourself, as I know you are a kind, generous, caring, and positive influence to all whom you touch. I'm so thankful that I got to bump into your article here, and equally thankful to see yet another school that honors a more conscious level of education. Wow! Melody, mmm, what a great message. I found this site because of a friend who said I’d resonate with it–and happily I also got to see your article. As a recent 3rd grade teacher, I often felt as the years went by that the nature of curriculum dissemination to the students was too much in light of the imbalance with the social, developmental, creative, and personal needs of my students and myself as their teacher. It caused much inner conflict within me, what with my own search for personal meaning, balance, and a happy medium between the norm of my district’s expectations and particular SOS area and my own growing concerns about the lack of true honoring of our children’s emotional and social health and healthy development of an authentic expression of their being. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and compassion in your writings. Thank you for sharing yourself, as I know you are a kind, generous, caring, and positive influence to all whom you touch. I’m so thankful that I got to bump into your article here, and equally thankful to see yet another school that honors a more conscious level of education. Wow!

]]> http://rivieraplayschool.com/parenting-from-balance/please-don%e2%80%99t-hurry-your-child-by-melody-elder/comment-page-1#comment-118 sandy uslander Mon, 05 Jul 2010 17:13:48 +0000 http://rivieraplayschool.com/?p=1333#comment-118 Beautiful. The message is so important and the story of the butterfly helped me to feel it as well as understand it. Thank you. Beautiful. The message is so important and the story of the butterfly helped me to feel it as well as understand it. Thank you.

]]>