Melinda Cropsey
The Breadcrumbs Curriculum!
After six years of research, piloting and preparation the Breadcrumbs Curriculum is ready for YOU! (Check out: www.breadcrumbssel.com)...
"Educating the mind without educating
the heart is no education at all."
- Aristotle
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Melinda Cropsey
- Jul 20, 2021
- 1 min
The Breadcrumbs Curriculum Cards are “IN”!
The Breadcrumbs Curriculum Cards are “IN”! Thanks to the beautiful illustrations created by our Artistic Director Giada Rose and Evan...
Melinda Cropsey
- Jul 9, 2021
- 1 min
The Breadcrumbs Labyrinth
The most distinguishing feature of the Breadcrumbs Curriculum (www.breadcrumbssel.com) is its incorporation of the labyrinth as a tool...
Melinda Cropsey
- Jan 19, 2021
- 2 min
Better by Mistake!
What do tea bags, potato chips, silly putty, velcro and chocolate chip cookies have in common? They were ALL invented by mistake!...
Melinda Cropsey
- Jan 1, 2021
- 1 min
Breadcrumbs Best Book: ABCs of Kindness, by Patricia Hegarty + illustrated by Summer Macon
“Our work as adults does not consist in teaching, but in helping the infant mind in its work of development.” Maria Montessori Maria...
Melinda Cropsey
- Dec 11, 2020
- 1 min
Breadcrumbs Best Book: A Quiet Happy Place / A Children’s Introduction to the Labyrinth
A Quiet Happy Place, A Children’s Introduction to the Labyrinth By Melinda M. Cropsey (2017) HP Publishing, Longmeadow, MA. This first...
Melinda Cropsey
- Dec 11, 2020
- 1 min
The Art of Listening to your Heart!
According to a recent NPR Life Kit segment entitled: How to Help Your Kids Reframe their Anxiety and Reclaim Their Superpowers (link...
Melinda Cropsey
- Nov 16, 2020
- 2 min
Epigenetics 101
In early childhood “the psychic life of a child needs to be protected and to be surrounded by an environment that could be compared with...
Melinda Cropsey
- Oct 7, 2020
- 2 min
This Simple Tool Could Change Your Life (It did mine!)
There are countless reasons to enjoy heart-centered reflection and meditation. Goodness knows we are all in need of tools to help us:...
Melinda Cropsey
- Jul 25, 2020
- 1 min
A Place Where You Can’t Mess Up!
Many children are primed from a very early age to be perfectionists, and suffer from a fear of making mistakes and/or not measuring-up. ...
Melinda Cropsey
- May 25, 2020
- 3 min
Feelings, Whoa, whoa, whoa... Feelings.
“... we very often have little or no control over when we are swept by emotion, nor over what emotion it will be. But we can have some...
Melinda Cropsey
- Apr 23, 2020
- 2 min
Cultivating An Attitude of Gratitude
“Our work as adults does not consist in teaching, but in helping the infant mind in its work of development.” 1 Maria Montessori In honor...
Melinda Cropsey
- Mar 31, 2020
- 1 min
Breadcrumbs Best Book: Penelope's Superpower by Melinda Cropsey + illustrated by Giada Rose
My goal in writing Penelope’s Superpower was to offer young children a tool for quieting their minds, self-soothing and connecting to the...
Melinda Cropsey
- Mar 12, 2020
- 2 min
Love Lenses
“Does not love make us sensible to things which are not noticed by others? Does it not reveal to us details and special qualities that...
Melinda Cropsey
- Feb 18, 2020
- 2 min
Breadcrumbs Best Book: Love, I Love You All the Time! By Emma Dodd
For some months now, I’ve been enjoying piloting a “Breadcrumbs Basics” curriculum for the very young—children between the ages of 2-4. ...
Melinda Cropsey
- Feb 14, 2020
- 3 min
Takin' It Down....
Consciously slowed breathing is a power tool when it comes to emotional self-regulation! (There are countless iterations:...
Melinda Cropsey
- Jan 29, 2020
- 1 min
“There’s No Place Like…”
We all hold in our movie-memory banks, that magical scene in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy closes her eyes, clicks her heels three times,...
Melinda Cropsey
- Jan 13, 2020
- 2 min
The Magic of a Smile!
We’ve been breaking down the Breadcrumbs Superpower Breathing Practice: “I place my hands on my heart, And a smile on my face..." Today,...
Melinda Cropsey
- Dec 2, 2019
- 1 min
“I Place My Hands on My Heart”
“The child… is born of love, and love is his natural origin.”1 -Maria Montessori One of the Breadcrumbs Curriculum’s most profound and...
Melinda Cropsey
- Oct 29, 2019
- 1 min
What is Social-Emotional Learning?
… and why is it such a hot topic today? STRESS is the number one reason social-emotional learning is such a hot topic today! We are...