Sing Peace Around the World

My 5 year old daughter has been singing a beautiful song about peace that she learned at school (Lakeland Montessori).  From the teacher’s weekly email, I followed a link to find all the words, and found a lot more than that.  This song travelled the world in 24 hours – on the International Day of [...]

Healthy and Happy in spite of H1N1

Nobody wants to be sick.  Parents are legitimately concerned for the health of their children as they start school, and participate in group class activities.  There are a lot of germs out there, and H1N1 is making us ALL take a look at what we can do to stay healthy.

Kindermusik International (as always) has done extensive research [...]

My Dream of Motherhood

It’s a serious predicament when a woman strongly desires to have children, yet her husband, the desired father wants NO part of it.  Since this occurred with both MY parents, and my father’s parents, I suspect it is far more common than I felt at the time.  But, it is interesting to learn how each [...]

How can you teach music to BABIES?

People ask me,  “How can you teach music to babies?”  As part of the full Kindermusik curricullum, the Village program is designed for babies from infancy up to 18 months old.   Why start so young? 

That’s easy to answer.  Every experience they have now helps to build a foundation for learning.  Music excites the brain, getting it [...]

What matters most

Recent experiences have created sort of a LIFE SHIFT for me.  I know most people re-evaluate at the beginning of each year, set new goals.  I was just too overwhelmed during the last few months. (Thus the lack of blog postings – sorry!)  It has led me to be guided a little differently. 
Instead of writing a [...]

My Own Version of THE BIG CHILL kitchen scene

In the movie, THE BIG CHILL, family and friends gather at one person’s home to attend a funeral and  reminisce about a friend who just passed away.  Well, no one in my family has passed away, but in the last few weeks, we’ve gathered by the bunches, both here and in Texas, to share the burdens of some of [...]