Every morning, before the school day begins, a bell rings throughout the grade school hallway inviting faculty and staff into one of the classrooms for a reading from The Calendar of the Soul. This book of verses was written by Waldorf education’s founder, Rudolf Steiner, to mark the course of the year and the interplay between the outer world around us and the inner world of ourselves. As teachers, it is a reminder of the forces that are at work around us, out of our control, and the possible inner forces that we can awaken within us, that is what is within our control. We know that we cannot control another person, even a child, and nor should we.  All we can control is ourselves.  So when we prepare for the day, we are chiefly preparing ourselves. In this episode, Education Director Vernon Dewey shares how we as parents can also prepare ourselves to meet our burgeoning, changing children in much the same way as our teachers prepare for the classroom of students.