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Now in Russian!
Выращивание собственной еды, как обязательный предмет во всех школах http://rodovid.me/ecological_parent/vyraschivanie-sobstvennoy-edy-kak-obyazatelnyy-predmet-vo-vseh-shkolah.html Парник размером 7 х 14 метров является центром всей деятельности. Там, детивыращивают морковь, шпинат, капусту и другие овощи, в том числе и зелень. В процессе, они изучают все преимущества выращивания собственных овощей и этапы, которые необходимо пройти, чтобы из семян получить готовую еду. Смотрите сами и может быть, если вы вдохновились,…
Now in Spanish!
Our friends at http://ecoinventos.com recently translated this postsinto Spanish and have shared it in Spanish on their Facebook page. Share if You Think Every School Should Have a Year-Round Gardening Program! Cultivar tu propios alimentos, asignatura obligatoria en todos los colegios Un colegio donde sus alumnos aprenden a cultivar sus propios alimentos, incluso reciclan su propia comida para hacer compost, en invierno…
Do You Think This Could Become as Big as Baseball?
Nine Similarities Between Family Gardening and the National Pastime. Our local baseball team uses our school lot for game parking. So, on early evenings before a home game, fans toting lawn chairs stride determinedly down our long driveway toward our community field of dreams. At the same time, parents and kids arriving at school to garden together step out of their…
Now in Chinese…Five Reasons to Think Twice Before You Praise Your Child and what to Do Instead
表扬孩子前三思的五个理由和五个替代行为
Five Reasons to Think Twice Before Praising Your Child and Five Ideas for What to Do Instead
(photo:You want your child to be free, to be led by his or her own inner self) A mom at the playground this morning called excitedly to her child. “Good job!” I couldn’t see her because I was working inside a greenhouse next to the twisty orange plastic slide. Thirty seconds later, I heard it again, “Good job!” and again…
Finding Balance in the Garden
Originally posted on Growing Children:
? She wore a man’ s castoff button down shirt, white with long sleeves to shield her from the sun, from the green sap that oozed from the wounds created when she snapped suckers emerging between stems and leafy branches. She was ten years old, working whole hot blazing days in the tomato ffelds,working too…
Now in Chinese!
Seven Reasons to not (always) Answer Your Child’s Questions has been translated into Chinese at this site : http://hiwaldorf.com/post4130/2 using the lovely photo above. It has been viewed by almost 2,000 people who visit this Waldorf website. I have been enjoying learning a few Chinese characters by entering parts of the post in Google translate. Many thanks to the person…
Toddlers blooming in the Garden: Finding Wonder
Originally posted on Growing Children:
Part Two of Four “If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.” ― Rachel Carson Wonder in the first years of life creates the…
Who reads Growing Children? Welcome Uganda!
Almost everyday I get a wonderful surprise when I peek at reader statistics. I love seeing where my readers live and I am especially thrilled to welcome a reader from a new country. Today, I was happy to notice our first reader from Uganda! I also note that some small countries have more readers that I might expect, notably Romania.…
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