To Mother with Andrea Hope

Ep. 28: Baha'i mom and poet Andrea Hope gives some ideas for celebrating the Birth of the Bab and the Birth of Baha'u'llah by decorating your yard with a Baha'i quote and doing a sticker activity with preschoolers using the years 1817 and 1819.

The resources for this episode are as follows:

Letter of the Universal House of Justice, 2014:
https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/the-universal-house-of-justice/messages/20140710_001/1#492839047

AGladsomeHeart on Etsy:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/AGladsomeHeart

Sticker Activity for Preschoolers:
https://www.facebook.com/tomotherwithandreahope/posts/155968219511102

Facebook: @tomotherwithandreahope
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Website: www.andreahope.org 

Ep. 27: Baha'i mom and poet Andrea Hope discusses Jr. Youth Groups (part of the Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment Programs initiated by Baha'i communities) and highlights a service focused journal.

The resources for this episode are as follows:

Prayer by 'Abdu'l-Baha:
http://www.bahaiprayers.org/child10.htm

Pass It On Service Journal:
https://www.bahaibookstore.com/Pass-It-On-Service-Journal-P9229.aspx

If you're interested in Andrea's Etsy store:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/andreahopeorg

Facebook: @tomotherwithandreahope
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.andreahope.org 

Baha'i mom and poet Andrea Hope announces a short hiatus while visiting her family in the United States. But never fear, she will be sharing stories of inspiring Baha'i mothers during this time. This story is of Phoebe Hearst, founder of a museum of anthropology, wife of U.S. Senator George Hearst, and mother of newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst. She was blessed to spend time with the Master in Haifa and the United States.

The resources for this episode are as follows:
https://bahaichronicles.org/phoebe-hearst/

If you're interested in Andrea's Etsy store:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/andreahopeorg

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.andreahope.org 

Baha'i mom and poet Andrea Hope announces a short hiatus while visiting her family in the United States. But never fear, she will be sharing stories of inspiring Baha'i mothers during this time. This story is of Hyde and Clara - "Father" and "Mother" Dunn and their contributions to the New Zealand Baha'i community, which led to their designations as Hands of the Cause of God.

The resources for this episode are as follows:
https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/se/ARO/aro-84.html

If you're interested in Andrea's Etsy store:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/andreahopeorg

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.andreahope.org 

Baha'i mom and poet Andrea Hope announces a short hiatus while visiting her family in the United States. But never fear, she will be sharing stories of inspiring Baha'i mothers during this time. This third story is of May Maxwell, mother of the Canadian Baha'i community and mother of her and her husband's (William Sutherland Maxwell) only daughter, Mary Maxwell, who would grow up to marry the Baha'i Faith's Guardian, Shoghi Effendi.

The resources for this episode are as follows:
https://www.bahai.ca/diverse-and-growing-community/canadian-origins/m_maxwell/

If you're interested in Andrea's Etsy store:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/andreahopeorg

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.andreahope.org 

Baha'i mom and poet Andrea Hope announces a short hiatus while visiting her family in the United States. But never fear, she will be sharing stories of inspiring Baha'i mothers during this time. This second story is of Munirih Khanum, wife of 'Abdu'l-Baha and mother of 9 children, 5 of whom died before reaching adulthood.

The resources for this episode are as follows:
Words of Munirih as recorded in The Chosen Highway, Lady Bloomfield.

If you're interested in Andrea's DIY Doll Kit:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/838655112/diy-doll-kit-love-thy-creation-cloth

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.andreahope.org 

Baha'i mom and poet Andrea Hope announces a short hiatus while visiting her family in the United States. But never fear, she will be sharing stories of inspiring Baha'i mothers during this time. The first story is of Navvab (Asiyih Khanum), wife of Baha'u'llah and mother of 'Abdu'l-Baha, the Greatest Holy Leaf, and Mizra Mihdi.

The resources for this episode are as follows:

The Chosen Highway, Lady Bloomfield.

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.andreahope.org 

Baha'i mom and poet Andrea Hope discusses her experience traveling by plane with young children and highlights a great, virtue-based show for long flights.

The resources for this episode are as follows: 

Prayer of the Bab:
https://reference.bahai.org/en/t/c/BP/bp-48.html

Bobo and Kipi in the Congo:
https://9starmedia.com/bobo-and-kipi-season-1
https://9starmedia.com/bobo-and-kipi-season-2

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Website: www.andreahope.org/tomother.html

Baha'i mom and poet Andrea Hope gives 10 ideas for fun summer activities related to the priniciples of the Baha'i Faith.

The resources for this episode are as follows: 

Quote on behalf of Shoghi Effendi: 
"Regarding your Summer School; he is indeed grateful to your Assembly for the great success that has attended your efforts for the formation of this institution, the teaching value of which for England cannot be overestimated. He wishes, in particular, to offer his most sincere thanks to the Bahá’í youth group in London for their remarkable share in making the school such an outstanding success this year. This has been certainly a bold undertaking, considering the limited number and resources of the believers in England. But the results obtained are highly encouraging and augur well for the future of this first English Bahá’í Summer School. The unity, courage and whole-hearted loyalty of the friends have enabled them to boldly face and successfully overcome the difficulties and obstacles which may have first appeared, to many at least, to be quite unsurmountable. The Guardian would, therefore, urge all the believers to persevere in their efforts for raising the standard, both intellectual and spiritual, of their Summer School and to heighten its prestige in the eyes of the friends, and of the general non-Bahá’í public outside. The institution of the Summer School constitutes a vital and inseparable part of any teaching campaign, and as such ought to be given the full importance it deserves in the teaching plans and activities of the believers. It should be organised in such a way as to attract the attention of the non-believers to the Cause and thus become an effective medium for teaching. Also it should afford the believers themselves an opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the Teachings, through lectures and discussions and by means of close and intense community life."

These ideas are in no particular order:
1. Scrapbook your family or community's Baha'i history
2, Connect nature experiences (flower, water, etc.) to quotes from the Faith
3. Travel like the early believers
4. Create care packages to drop to families (race unity, essential workers, Feast)
5. Baha'i-themed scavenger hunt
6. Performing arts night based on a principle of the Faith (if you don't feel you have "talent" offer to host or find a compelling or funny short story)
7. Deepening on the Hands of the Cause of God
8. Drive-in performance or film
9. Connecting with animals
10. Trunk party based on a principle of the Faith

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Website: www.andreahope.org/tomother.html

Baha'i mom and poet Andrea Hope and co-host Mallory Quigg discuss guiding children and teaching chidren's classes as encouraged in Book 3 from the Ruhi Institute. 

The resources for this episode are as follows: 

Quote of 'Abdu'l-Baha: "As to thy question regarding the education of children: It behoveth thee to nurture them at the breast of the love of God, and urge them onward to the things of the spirit—that they may turn their faces unto God; that their ways may conform to the rules of good conduct and their character be second to none; that they make their own all the graces and praiseworthy qualities of humankind; that they acquire a sound knowledge of the various branches of learning—so that from the very beginning of life they may become spiritual beings, dwellers in the Kingdom, enamoured of the sweet breaths of holiness, and may receive an education religious, spiritual, and of the Heavenly Realm. Verily will I call upon God to grant them a happy outcome in this."

Ruhi Book 3: https://www.ruhi.org/materials/list.php

Resources for children's classes:
https://delighted-hearts.com/
https://www.enablemetogrow.com/
https://www.innerprizegroup.com/collections/ruhi-institute-teacherss-tips-and-tools
https://www.hastenbahaiwomen.com/new
http://www.supportingthecoreactivities.org/

Children's Book Directory (we highlighted Jungle of Virtues):
https://www.andreahope.org/bahaichildren.html

Email: [email protected]
Website: www.andreahope.org/tomother.html