Category: Perspective

The Trust Tree

Posted by Sunflower Creative Arts | Communication, Learning Within Community, Perspective

We allow our children to feel their emotions, but do we do that with ourselves? Do we parents respect ourselves enough to accept and acknowledge our own feelings of sadness, anger, guilt and loneliness?

From adult learning back to early childhood play

Posted by Meade Peers McCoy | Learning Through Experience, Perspective

How does learning to climb a tree or covering their faces with brightly colored paint impact the future life and workplace skills of our kids? In bigger ways than you might imagine.

When parents shouldn’t say no

Posted by Jaime Greenberg | Moms and Dads, Perspective, Respect for the Individual

A recent Motherlode blog (“Confessions of a Mother Who Couldn’t Say No”) and its comment thread...

Flying

Posted by Susan Caruso | Learning Through Experience, Perspective, Play

This time last year my youngest son, Steven, had been safely back home in the States for about a...

Steady Yourself

Posted by Susan Caruso | Learning Through Experience, Perspective, Play

A little boy glanced at me from across the playground. Both his hands were on a big green post. He...

It’s Election Day

Posted by Jaime Greenberg | Perspective, Respect for the Individual

I woke up this morning thinking about today’s election, and wrote this essay on my personal...

Dawdling: Learning the Beauty of Going Slow

Posted by Sunflower Creative Arts | Learning Through Experience, Moms and Dads, Perspective

Jennifer Sneeden, PhD(c), LMFT, first connected with Sunflower two years ago, and is so grateful...

Falling Down

Posted by Sunflower Creative Arts | Learning Through Experience, Moms and Dads, Perspective

Cindy Thagard is mom to current Seedlings Corwin (4) and Seraya (3), and future Seedling Vallen...

The Lasting Traditions

Posted by Jonathan Iris-Wilbanks, AMFT, CCLS | Perspective, Respect for the Individual

When stressed or overwhelmed I seek the things that provide familiarity. Traditions that stir warm...

Mountains of Mulch

Posted by Jonathan Iris-Wilbanks, AMFT, CCLS | Experiential, Learning Through Experience, Perspective

The house I grew up in had a long dirt driveway. At the beginning of every summer my mom would...

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