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Grab your planning for peace planner, journal or piece of paper.
Come close your eyes, take a deep breath and meditate on each child.

- What has been going well that you want to continue to incorporating in your Waldorf Homeschooling? - What areas are not going how you would like them too?

Take this time to pause mid year and meditate on moving forward.

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We are in this journey together.

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Melisa Nielsen is here to encourage you in your new year.

It's important to reflect on what needs to happen before you jump back into your Waldorf homeschooling and start off a fresh new year.

Maybe you need a week off to get the house in order.

Maybe you need more self care.

Maybe you need a deep breath.

Take a moment.

What do you need before you start back into your homeschooling rhythm?

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Melisa Nielsen at Waldorf Essentials shares her New Year routine to inspire you to use this fresh energy and make the new year everything you want it to be!

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Please share with your fellow parenting friends and homeschoolers.
We are in this journey together.

Have the homeschool and peaceful foundation of your dreams.

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Melisa Nielsen from Waldorf Essentials shares the tips she has used for her children and their special needs.

These tips help set the foundation for your traveling.

When you have the strong foundation then you can handle the unexpected things that come up better. Like losing your car seat on the shuttle.

If you know a friend that gets overwhelmed with travel whether their children have special needs or not, these tips are helpful for every parent.

Do you love to travel?

We would love to hear your top tips in the comments.

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Melisa Nielsen has an important reminder for you to apply to your parenting.

This reminder can also be modeled by the parents!

Share with a friend, homeschooling and parenting is a journey we can root for and support one another.

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Our Thinking Feeling Willing program is your road map to a successful Waldorf homeschool journey!

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Melisa Nielsen at Waldorf Essentials shares her experience with perfectionism and heels being dug into the ground about main lesson.

There are many difficulties to navigate with the special needs child.

Melisa shares the importance of the parent being in a good space to help navigate each situation that comes up.

Melisa touches on perfectionism and helpful tips she found worked for her and her child.

We hope they help you and always welcome messages.

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Melisa takes the common excuses she received from Thinking, Feeling, Willing members and breaks each one down.

Common excuses:

- I can't get up before my kids, they wake up too early.

- Have a nursing child and co sleeping babies.

- It's too dark.

- It's too cold.

- I didn't go to college.

- I can't read from my phone.

- I don't have room on my phone.

We are in charge of what is and excuse and navigating our reasons.

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We traditionally make candles to celebrate Candlemas.

Candlemas marks the end of Christmastide.

It is known by some as the day Jesus was presented at the Temple. It is also a festival celebrating St. Brigid. She was a girl with divine wisdom to some and a goddess to others. It is called Imbolc for Pagan faiths.

Traditionally Brigid is the goddess of the well and the flame. She marks the beginning of spring and brings us out of the darkness of winter. I like to think of Brigid as taking the flame from Saint Martin who carried it into the winter.

It was then strengthened by the Light born in the middle with the Solstice and the birth of the Sun/Son. Now Brigid carries it into the world, whispering to all the plants that spring is on her way. From Martin's lantern to the Light at the center of our Solstice spiral and now to Brigid.

The flame is tended and the renewal has begun.

-How to make rolled candles
You will need:
cotton wicks (without clips)
honeycomb wax sheets

-How to make poured candles

You will need: cotton wicks (with clips),
beeswax pellets or a block of wax,
wax melter, or double boiler.

-How to make dipped candles
You will need: cotton wicks (without clips),
beeswax pellets or block of wax,
wax melter,
or double boiler.

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Melisa shares helpful tools she learned along the way of navigating her journey with her children with special needs.

- Diet Eliminating wheat and dairy from their families diet was a huge help.
This takes time.
The wheat and dairy are stored in the gut for a while, give it a chance to work without being in a hurry.

- Rescue Remedy can be found at your local health food store.
Keep it with you at all times.

- Media Navigating no media, low media, media detoxing.

Melisa also touches on divorce, splitting custody, attachment parenting and how to support the child's interests and needs.

Have the homeschool and peaceful foundation of your dreams.

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