Joyfull Parenting

Today my guest is Katherine Scharff. Katherine is the Director of Teacher Education at Sophia’s Hearth. She is also a preschool and parent-child teacher at the Waldorf School of Saratoga, New York where she brought the first forrest kindergarten into being in the states. She is also a Simplicity Parenting Family Life Coach. She has completed the Sophia’s Hearth full Waldorf teacher education program and additional training in the Pikler approach. With her background in nursing and specialized training in the anthroposophical approach to nursing, Katherine brings these skills to our teacher education students.

To find out more about Katherine and the amazing work she is doing in the world keep an eagle eye out for the Joyful Beginnings website coming in April 2021.

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Today my guest is Alfie Kohn. Mr. Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The most recent of his 14 books are SCHOOLING BEYOND MEASURE…And Other Unorthodox Essays About Education (2015) and THE MYTH OF THE SPOILED CHILD: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom About Children and Parenting (2014).  Of his earlier titles, the best known are PUNISHED BY REWARDS (1993), NO CONTEST: The Case Against Competition (1986), UNCONDITIONAL PARENTING (2005), and THE SCHOOLS OUR CHILDREN DESERVE (1999).

 Kohn has been described in Time magazine as “perhaps the country’s most outspoken critic of education’s fixation on grades [and] test scores.” His criticisms of competition and rewards have helped to shape the thinking of educators — as well as parents and managers — across the country and abroad. Kohn has been featured on hundreds of TV and radio programs, including the “Today” show and two appearances on “Oprah”; he has been profiled  in the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, while his work has been described and debated in many other leading publications.

Kohn lectures widely at universities and to school faculties, parent groups, and corporations. In addition to speaking at staff development seminars and keynoting national education conferences on a regular basis, he conducts workshops for teachers and administrators on various topics. Among them: “Motivation from the Inside Out: Rethinking Rewards, Assessment, and Learning” and “Beyond Bribes and Threats: Realistic Alternatives to Controlling Students’ Behavior.” The latter corresponds to his book BEYOND DISCIPLINE: From Compliance to Community (ASCD, 1996), which he describes as “a modest attempt to overthrow the entire field of classroom management.”

Kohn’s various books have been translated into more than two dozen languages . He has also contributed to publications ranging from the Journal of Education to Ladies Home Journal, and from the Nation to the Harvard Business Review (“Why Incentive Plans Cannot Work”). His efforts to make research in human behavior accessible to a general audience have also been published in the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, Parents, and Psychology Today.

His many articles on education  include a dozen widely reprinted essays in Phi Delta Kappan during the ’90s and ’00s. Among them: “Choices for Children: Why and How to Let Students Decide,” “How Not to Teach Values: A Critical Look at Character Education,” “Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow,” and “Why Self-Discipline is Overrated.”

Kohn, the father of two grown children, lives (actually) in the Boston area and (virtually) at 

http://www.alfiekohn.org 

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With her master in education and As a trained Waldorf Kindergarten teacher Michelle has worked in early childhood education for more than twenty years. She taught parent/child and preschool classes at Monadnock Waldorf School for thirteen years. She spent two years as the primary caregiver for infants/toddlers at Sophia's Hearth Family Center and has had the pleasure of teaching a mixed age kindergarten at the Hartsbrook School. She holds a bachelor's degree from Anna Maria College in early childhood education and master’s degree in education from Lesley College. She completed her Waldorf Teacher Training from Sunbridge College and has completed course work in the Birth to Three Specialization Program at Sophia's Hearth Family Center. Michelle has stepped away from teaching for the times being to help care for her infant grandchild, along with supporting Sophia’s Hearth one day a week as Co-director of childcare. Michelle enjoys gardening, cooking, and spending time in nature. She has three grown children whom she enjoys spending time with most of all.  

During this episode she speaks to us about the 

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Today my guest in Xavier Dagba. Xavier is a trauma informed transformational life coach, shadow work facilitator and intuitive healer. He loves to think of himself as an emotional alchemist. It is his firm belief that personal freedom can only be achieved when we allow ourselves to welcome the wisdom hidden within every emotional state, good or “bad”. 

His own transformational journey brought him to dive into the universe of shadow work and he tends to think that only when you are willing to integrate your shadows, can you fully claim your power.  When you go through that path, you begin to lead your life from your heart and not from your wounds.

Xavier feels most alive, when he’s helping people shed their limitations, heal, claim their power, live a life of purpose and tap into their full potential. 

To find out more about Xavier and the amazing work he is doing in the world please go to his website https://www.xavierdagba.com/bio

or on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/xavier.dagba/

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Jane is an associate director and core faculty member of the teacher education program at Sophias Hearth, bringing her life long experience, training, and research into children’s sensory motor development.  Jane is a movement specialist and pediatric physical therapist, a graduate of the Level III training in Spacial Dynamics®, certified in Bothmer Gymnastics®, in Sensory Integration Praxis testing and Bobath/Neuro-developmental Treatment for children with Cerebral Palsy. Jane has studied at the Pikler Institute in Budapest. She has a special interest in the child’s integration of the primitive reflexes. Jane previously taught movement education in the early grades at the Monadnock Waldorf School and has provided classroom consultation and worked privately with children for many years. Click here for articles that Jane has contributed on many themes.  Jane is certified by the New Hampshire Child Development Bureau as an Early Childhood Master Professional Workshop Trainer.

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Our website is in the works as you read this, so stay in close touch as we create this bountiful online resource, just for you!!

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My guests today are Natalie Christensen and Nathan M McTague. Natalie  and Nathan  are the founders of the Center for Emotional Education. For over 13 years they’ve been using master-level emotional intelligence to help powerful people across the globe become emotionally sovereign, and to claim the lives and relationships they’ve always wanted.

Check them out online here https://www.centerforemotionaleducation.com/emotional-sovereignty-webinar

And on IG https://www.instagram.com/centerforemotionaleducation/

Their next free webinar (3 Secrets to Emotional Sovereignty) is Feb 18th at 10:15 am Pacific. Here is the link to that.

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Today my guest is Lauren Hakala. Lauren shares with the listener tips and tools for supporting parents after they have chosen their childcare center. 

Lauren is not only  a long time Educator for the Young Child she has done this work in many different Settings. These setting include the Lab Schools of Keene State College where she earned her BS, and The University of New Hampshire where she enjoyed completing 14 graduate courses in ECE, she worked at The Orchard School where she learned the value of stewardship and community. She was an Administrator and Child Care Director at the Vermont Center for the Deaf before beginning her work at Sophias Hearth family center as child care director and teacher.

She is now a consultant for Joyful Beginnings  as well as the Child’s Librarian, at her local Library. She is an Artist, and Maker  and enjoyed living off grid with her husband in the deep woods of New England.

In this episode she shares with the us what she refers to as the golden keys to help find quality child care during these challenging times and beyond. 

To find out more about Lauren and all things Joyful Beginnings, click here

 https://www.instagram.com/joyful_beginnings/

Our website is in the works as you read this, so stay in close touch as we create this bountiful online resource, just for you!!

I have so much gratitude for everyone who has been listening to the Joyfull Parenting Podcast and joining the community of supporters at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=40232525 !

If you haven’t already,  please subscribe to the podcast. It’s also super duper helpful to me if you rate it, review it and share it with others! 

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Today my guest is Debbie Reber. Debbie is a parenting activist, New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and speaker who, before creating TiLT, spent more than fifteen years writing inspiring books for women and teens and speaking about issues like media literacy, self-esteem, and confidence.

But when Debbie learned that her son Asher was differently-wired, she spent years figuring out how to best support him in school and in life, recognizing how incredibly difficult it was to find solid, reliable, useful, and most of all optimistic, information for parents like her. Many of the websites and organizations that did exist didn’t speak to her, nor did they help her figure out a plan for getting Asher what he needed while supporting herself in the process. Her best leads came from word-of-mouth from other parents who’d been down the road before her, but even then, figuring out what to do and where to turn next was like going geocaching without a GPS. She created TiLT so parents stuck in this place of not-knowing and frustration can feel connected and grounded as they move forward in figuring out what their child needs in a way that feels positive and hopeful for the whole family.

Since 2002, she’s written ten books, including Differently Wired: Raising an Exceptional Child in a Conventional World , which was published by Workman Publishing in June 2018. Her most recent books for young adults include Doable: The Girls’ Guide to Accomplishing Just About Anything   and Chill: Stress-Reducing Techniques for a More Balanced, Peaceful You .

Before forging her own career path, Debbie worked in TV and video production, producing documentaries and PSAs for CARE and UNICEF, working on Blue’s Clues for Nickelodeon, and developing original series for Cartoon Network. She has an MA in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research and a BA in Communications from Pennsylvania State University.

In December 2018, Debbie, her husband, and 15-year-old Asher relocated back to NYC after living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands for five years. Debbie is an avid runner, traveler, and hiker, and claims reality shows as her guiltiest of pleasures. 

To find out more about TiLT parenting go to:

https://tiltparenting.com/about/

Or 

https://www.instagram.com/tiltparenting/

I have so much gratitude for everyone who has been listening to the Joyfull Parenting Podcast and joining the community of supporters at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=40232525 !

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In this episode Lauren Hakala shares with us what she refers to as the golden keys to help find quality child care during these challenging times and beyond.

Lauren is not only a long time educator for the young child she has had the opportunity to do this work in many different settings. Some of the settings include, The Lab Schools of Keene State College where she earned her Bachelors and The University of New Hampshire were she enjoyed completing fourteen graduate courses in Early Childhood Education. 

She worked at The Orchard School where she was grateful to learn the value of stewardship and community. She was an Administrator and Child Care Director at the

Vermont Center for the Deaf before beginning her work at Sophias Hearth Family Center as child care director and teacher. She is now a consultant for Joyful Beginnings  as well as the Child’s Librarian at her local Library. She is an artist and maker  and enjoys living off the grid with her husband in the deep woods of New England.

To find out more about Lauren and all things Joyful Beginnings, click here

 https://www.instagram.com/joyful_beginnings/

Our website is in the works as you read this, so stay in close touch as we create this bountiful online resource, just for you!!

I have so much gratitude for everyone who has been listening to the Joyfull Parenting Podcast and joining the community of supporters at https://www.patreon.com/user?u=40232525 !

If you haven’t already,  please subscribe to the podcast. It’s also super duper helpful to me if you rate it, review it and share it with others! 

If you are looking  to work with me one-on-one as your parenting/caregiving coach you can do so  by clicking on this link with  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=40232525. You can also find me on Facebook and IG @joyfullparenting

My guest is Susan Perrow. Susan is an Australian whose ‘work’ passion is stories and storytelling. She is an author, world renowned storyteller, teacher trainer and parent educator. For the last 30 years she has been documenting stories from other cultures, writing stories and telling stories to groups of children and adults – all this woven in with a career in teaching, lecturing and consulting in Australia, Africa, Asia, China, Europe and North America. She currently has three published story collections, in a total of 10 languages.  

You can find Susan’s books on Amazon but to order her latest book please go to:

https://www.hawthornpress.com/books/family/bereavement/stories-to-light-the-night/

To find out ore about her good work go to:

http://susanperrow.com

And for some of her latest and most potent stories for these times go to:

http://susanperrow.com/stories

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