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A beautiful and tender story about a little girl named Lorenza who dearly misses her grandmother who has crossed the rainbow bridge. One autumn morning, Lorenza was feeling sad because she wanted to see her grandmother again. Mother Earth sees Lorenza walking in the forest and goes to help her so that she can once again feel her grandmother’s light in her heart.

We recommend this story for ages  4 - 7

About the Author - Maria Fernanda Wetzel

Maria is originally from Ecuador and has been living in Chicago for 20 years. She was a public school teacher for 10 years and left the public school system when her daughter was a toddler. She found Waldorf when she was looking for a preschool for her daughter and fell in love with the Waldorf parent-child program. Maria started her journey in a Waldorf school as an assistant and currently she is working as a mixed age early childhood lead teacher. Maria loves her job and hopes to continue growing. In her free time, she loves to cook, read and run. 

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Thanks for joining us on Q & A Friday! Today’s question is “What’s behind Angry outbursts and how to repair with your child." In todays episode I'll give tips and strategies for dealing with angry outbursts in the moment and how to prevent them from happening in the future. Listen to today's episode to hear about ways that you can be in control and also repair after an angry outburst.

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Today on Seasonal Thursday, I’ll be talking about Togetherness in the Autumn and ways to nurture your child’s soul senses. In this episode, I’ll talk about the soul senses and how with your awareness of them you can discover ways to nurture these senses in autumn. This is for your child and you! As you nurture your child’s soul senses you’ll experience how this brings more togetherness in your family which will result in more presence and more gratitude for what makes life more meaningful. Tune in today to learn how to nurture togetherness this Autumn!

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Today on Inspirational Wednesday, I'll be talking about ways that you can thrive intentionally as a family. Thriving intentionally begins with intentionally creating your family's culture. There are five key areas to begin thriving intentionally that I discuss in this episode. Those areas are predictability in your rhythm, communication to build trust, connecting to build a strong relationship, setting Boundaries, and your family’s values. Tune in to hear how these five areas can set you on the right path to thriving as a family.

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Today on Blossoming Tuesday, we focus on the three-year-old’s language development and developing imagination, as well as their inner desire to play with other children and have friends. We provide insight into how you can guide them in their play interactions, and support them as they develop social skills. This is an extremely formative time that comes with many challenges. Your three-year-old is experiencing “the emergence of self” for the very first time, and is acting from a place of sympathy and antipathy. Join us for an enlightening discussion on the fundamental developments of the three-year-old, and what you can do to provide your child with the safe anchor that they need, as they continue to blossom.

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Pit-a-Pat, a little pumpkin Gnome and his spider friend It-a-Bit love to play together everyday in the pumpkin patch or at It-a-Bit’s house. In the Autumn, Mother Pumpkin needed Pit-a-Pat’s help to prepare the pumpkins for Halloween. Pit-a-Pat decided to play with It-a-Bit and then he caught the sniffles. Oh, dear, how would he ever finish preparing the pumpkins?

We recommend this story for ages 3-7

About the Author - Christy Klincewicz

This is my 20th year as a Waldorf Early Childhood Educator.  My early experiences of exploring the wonder and beauty of the natural world and the reverent moments created by lighted candles on the Christmas tree and ringing a bell to invite the angels in, have shaped me to take up my work with young children.

The imaginations impressed upon my soul from the taste of cold, clear mountain streams and peeping into the magical worlds hidden beneath their mossy banks have given me a rich pictorial language.  I love creating stories where the world is good, kind friends help those in need and love weaves a mantle of safety and warmth.  Often these stories arise when the children say, “Tell us a story.”

Then I, too, listen as Mother of the Fairy Tales whispers in my ear.

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Today on Mindful Monday, I’ll be talking about the mood and energy of each day and how harmonizing with it supports your daily and weekly rhythms. Have you noticed that on some days it’s harder to get certain things done while on other days everything goes so much smoother? If you’ve experienced this, then you might just find that having awareness of and working with each day’s mood and energy to be helpful. Tune in today to learn more about working with each day's energy to create a smoother weekly rhythm!

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Welcome to We Nurture Podcast’s Q&A Friday, where each week we answer questions that you submit to our Instagram page or website. This week we answer the question “What parenting books or authors do you recommend, for discipline and the early years?”. Tune in to hear the top seven books Chinyelu recommends, and which chapters in each most resonated with her. Chinyelu also breaks down why discipline and the early years cannot be separated, and the importance of paying attention to your child’s daily experiences. Join us as we dive into how discipline affects both the child and the parent, and what you can do to ensure you discipline your child in the most nurturing way. Find out how your self-discipline and your upbringing can both affect the way you discipline your child. Finally, remember that you are your child’s first teacher! Don’t miss out on this information-packed episode.

Discovering Joy in Parenting: The First Seven Years

Heaven on Earth: A Handbook for Parents of Young Children

With Stars in Their Eyes: Brain Science and Your Child’s Journey toward the Self

Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community

The Soul of Discipline: The Simplicity Parenting Approach to Warm, Firm, and Calm Guidance- Toddler to Teen

Stress-Free Parenting in 12 Steps

Beyond the Rainbow Bridge: Nurturing Our Children from Birth to Seven

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As we move into autumn, with longer shadows and colder mornings, we become more naturally inclined towards coziness. Let this be a pathway for your love and connection with your little one to grow deeper and warmer too. In today’s Seasonal Thursday episode, we are looking at mothering, coziness, and warmth in autumn! There are many things you can do to create a feeling of warmth in your home, from physical actions and words, to delicious sensory vegetables and food experiences. You can also invite a nourishing connection to the earth by creating a dedicated nature corner in your home, and share the magic of tending to this corner together. We also dive into mothering your little one’s physical warmth, why their growing bodies scientifically need us to care for their temperature, and the importance of practical morning layers. There are tons of cozy suggestions and wonderful ideas for you to try, so begin your autumn adventure and snuggle into the love by listening in today!

To help you get started with creating your family’s nature corner, we have a  limited selection of nature dyed silks to get you started. You’ll find them on the website linked below.

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We all want to parent our child with consciously and intentionally, but this is so much easier said than done. Today's episode on this Inspirational Wednesday is the elusive but crucial topic of confident parenting. We start with some reflective questions about what parenting style you learned from in your upbringing, and move into some specific qualities that we can use to help us strengthen our parenting style to one which feels safe for and child. Next, we explore ideas around what it means to own your role as the parent, how to have clarity and security around decisions, and how insecurity can cause anxiety that the child might act out in other ways. I share my favorite quote from Scott Noelle, who gives some extraordinary and very sound advice on the concept of not asking questions when we know the answer. This is a very important topic and I'm so glad you could join me today. Press play and let's dive in!

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