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My girls graduated, but my youngest needed "pliable exhaustion" before we could start our lessons. So, we would go for a walk every day. The conversations they would have cracked me up. They would forget I was there. I treasure these memories I had with them.❤ Your parenting advice is always spot on.😊

THIS IS SO HELPFUL!!! thank u!!

Amen

Looks great! Ive been eyeing that cute mushroom gnome house for my kids. So cute

0:57 to 1:06 What did you say around this minute? I suspect that the subtitle is probably incorrect around this part. Thank you

I am so glad i listened to the very end. Love that the TCM practitioner told you that. I have moved all the way to a GAPS diet after Nourishing Traditions approach. As ever, i deeply appreciate your thoughtfulness, integrity, and willingness. So beautiful. Thrilled to see your physical condition improving!

When i get us out of the house allot in one day it leaves no time for circle time, and lessons. How you do you fit all life stuff in when you get iut so much?

Mine started to realise that some of the magic is not there but I want to keep for my younger boy…how do you handle that…do you really say yes Santa is not real and fairies don’t exist to a 9 year old?

Something I started doing a couple months ago was pack lunches for M-F and prep (wash, chop) veggies, make hardboiled eggs, muffins, granola in big 4-gallon batches (lasts several weeks in my house) cook up some potatoes, chia pudding so basically I only have to make dinner all week and most of the work is already done for that--just scoop out some onions here, some mushrooms there, etc and I have meals ready in 10-15 minutes. Lifesaver! 😊

Love the excitement! But the information is lost in thier conversation. I am looking for real information I can use. I want to share as much as I can with a friend's children. Maybe hone in on some real usable information.

Mama of 5 here, 11 and under and we are just stepping into home education after trying "unschooling" for a year while we transitioned countries. I just want to say that as a WOMByn, i see you, i honor you, i respect you and i am truly so grateful for the energy you are putting into helping families like ours who are trying to piece it all together. Thank you beautiful soul! ❤

what two temperaments can overlap in a person?

Ty for your videos. Ive not come across this tempurement information before, feeling melancholic about now. Lol. Excited for more. Also wondering if youve heard of human design systems? Its so amazing understanding from this angle also. 🙏

Is this something good to do before I even start homeschooling? My son is only 4 and I won’t be homeschooling him until next year.

I am choleric - sanguine like you, and when you describe yourself you could be describing me also! I am researching for my Waldorf homeschooling curriculum now, and my son doesn’t even start school until next year lol. I love watching your videos now though, and preparing. I will definitely be going with your curriculum next year :)

What is the “blue book”?💙

So helpful, Melisa! Thank you!❤ And thank you for that wonderful closing reminder, as well! 🙏🏻💓

It kind of makes my head constantly spin when theres parts and pieces to the same block all over the place in the journal. If tbere was a way I could reorganize it myself that would help. But instead I don't even use these "week of:" sheets for planning my days. I go from the block planning to separating the next weekly pages out into dailies.

I've never heard of celebrating the tides before, I love that so much!! 🤩

Hello! I have a lot of questions and I don't know where to start! I have an 11 year old girl, we are a homestead family, and I would like to know how much class time the child has per day. How is the methodology applied? I would like to know if the curriculum is secular, we are Noahide. And I have a lot of questions. I would like to know more about Waldorf education.

There were no rinky-dink skinny crayons in Germany untill Crayola started to be a old there in very recent years. When I grew up in the 70s we used Stockmar and Pelikan crayon in Kindergarten and school. And yes they were both the Stockmar size. I tried Filana block crayons but I prefer the Stockmar as well. I bought the Stockmar ones for my kids, block and stick crayons.

Your notebook is so beautiful 😍!

Susan Perro is a hero of mine! This is amazing! I'm so happy that you both were able to do this! 🙏🏻🥹💖

Hi Melisa- If I am signing up now in July, is there a way to catch up?

New here- binge watching... trying to figure it all out...

Hi when is the free planning for peace. Can I please have the link. I want to join.

So hard when kids have sports and extracurriculars!! Also when hubby wants to enjoy tv/sports after dinner. Help!

Yes please!!! 🤣 mine never stops. Luckily hes super sweet, clever, funny buttttt ohh my goodness my brain hurts sometimes

I thought the alphabetical order didn't matter in Waldorf? Maybe I'm confused, I haven't looked at the revised edition of grade one yet.

What I do, is I have two in the grades and a kinder. So there's enough block pages for each kid to have one section per month per block, even if it's a reoccurring block! So it'll start with the month we start, this year it's August, tab one is blue and is sectioned off for my 6th grader, block is laid out, materials, experiences, trips etc and the next page with the weeks I white it out and label them for weeks 1-4 in a month. We're doing five days a week this year and taking every tenth off so that rounds out to be every other Monday off and the end of the month is pretty open! So we can use that for trips, make up work, wrapping up, documentaries etc.

How far ahead do you gather resources, supplies and make artwork? 😊

How do you establish routines with the older children who may be resistant to chores?

One brave parent. My husband committed suicide when our twins were born. What a selfish loaf 🍞

Absolutely!

Short but sweet. Great concise advice.

I have found this video so immensely helpful. Thank you so much for posting it. I have recently discovered Waldorf and I am so sad I did not know about it sooner. I have a daughter who will start third grade this fall. I really want to put her in a Waldorf School but have some hesitations and concerns about whether or not it would be a good fit for her. She has struggled a bit academically in traditional school. I worry that if I put her in a Waldorf School she will feel even further behind because it will be so different to her. But I also want for her to develop a love for learning. She does not have that at her current school and very much struggles with anxiety regarding learning. Any advice would be greatly appreciated❤

Melisa, Thank you so much for the reminder to have fun! Always take so much value from the wisdom you share! ❤

Melissa I need your expertise. I have a 4 1/2 year old with ASD and a 2 1/2 year old with ASD. Both boys. One is a bit more severe than the other but I absolutely love the Waldorf philosophy and would just love for them to go to a Waldorf school but I’m scared of losing their services or for them to regress. I don’t know what to do.

This was the first video I have watched about Waldorf in the home. I would have appreciated some understanding of the philosophy sprinkled in this video as well to understand the purpose of fluff or general educational philosophy in a home setting. Do you have other videos that go a bit deeper to provide context?

Thank you for talking about this. It's important. These children are shaping their own personal character and we definitely need to be available to guide them. Otherwise, they'll be in danger of following the wrong lead.

I love this! Thank you for making this video!

I do time padding, have menus, front load my days and I still feel way to stretched just getting out 1-2 days a week... I'm ADHD and neurodivergent and constantly overwhelmed..

I just discovered you and have been listening to so many podcasts! The pep talks I didn’t know I needed!! ❤

take care

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Thank you! This is exactly the type of information I've been looking for and haven't been able to find. I'm wondering if it's because Waldorf is a patented method, unlike many other homeschooling methods. I'm currently in my first year of homeschooling using a Charlotte Mason approach, which i feel like is a great balance between some of the Waldorf concepts and a more classical or traditional method. But I'm curious to try a few weeks of Waldorf style lessons and see how it works for us. I've always thought that Waldorf was more difficult to implement and it seems like that is the case, but there are benefits in that as well!

I really appreciate the information cup metaphor and the reminder to be teachable.

Thank you Melisa!

Hi Melissa! I would love a video about how you fit in multiple main lessons and skills practice lessons (if you do them separately like in a Waldorf school) Also would love a hypothetical run down on how you would do say a two child family homeschool, for example how long would you spend on each child and would you do skills practice together or separate I'm a picture painted for me kind of girl (even if it's just an example) Thank you! Love your videos

I found this very informative thank you