Posted in ABC Music & Me, Adventures, Cancellations, Class Schedules, FYI, Family Time, Imagine That, Kindermusik, Masterworks Studio, Our Time, Sign & Sing, Village, Young Child, tagged cancellation, class, gratitude, summer, surgery on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
to my Kindermusik and studio families for their patience and understanding while I underwent surgery last week. I’ve been forced to slow down and take things easy for a few days, but plan on being back in the classroom this Thursday, May 1st.
Our summer schedule will also be up and available for online registration later [...]
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Posted in FYI, Just for Dads, Just for Grownups, Just for Moms, Links for Cool, Interesting Websites, Parenting, tagged "green", baby, diaper, Earth Day, environment on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This will definitely not be a post like you’re anticipating. While I wholeheartedly agree with the premise of a clean, safe environment now and for the future, I never had the opportunity to support it with my five children when they were infants as today’s young parents do. Meet the gDiaper - the breathable diaper you [...]
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Posted in Benefits, Benefits of Music, Education, FYI, Kindermusik, Masterworks Studio, Music For Children, Parenting, Simply Music, tagged child, children, corpus callosum, flute, MRI, music practice, musical instrument, musical study, neuroscientist, Piano, violin on April 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Many times in our Village classes (for infants 0 - 18 months), during our exercise time, I will often tell the parents that by providing the cross-lateral movements between opposing hand and foot, they are stimulating the corpus callosum which contains the nerve pathways between the two hemispheres in the brain. This area is also linked [...]
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Two good friends making music together on *one* guitar - enjoy!
Thanks, Lori!
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Reminded by a good friend how easy it is to be hard on yourself, I’ve decided to give myself a break tonight after spending four hours sorting through Kindermusik teaching materials, lesson plans, lyric sheets, home kits, and schedules from last summer. I am working on this summer’s class schedule and plan to have that up by [...]
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In surfing some other Kindermusik blogs tonight (notably Miss Christa’s), I ran across a video of a Japanese version of one of the classic all-time great rock songs, “Smoke on the Water.” I enjoyed viewing it, although I will confess that the vocals caught me a little off guard.
However, it did prompt me to [...]
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It’s hard to believe that it’s been two weeks since my last post. I’ve had several readers write, asking where I’ve been, and the honest truth is that I haven’t actually *been* anywhere other than home, studio, church, and the doctor’s office.
Wait a minute -
Doctor’s office?
Yes, I found myself on March 26 at the [...]
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