Melinda Cropsey
The Voice
Making and taking precious time, each day, to slow your breathing, quiet your mind, and tap into “the voice inside of you” is rapidly...
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"Educating the mind without educating
the heart is no education at all."
- Aristotle
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Melinda Cropsey
- Sep 29, 2021
- 2 min
The Invisible String, by Patrice Karst + illustrated by Geoff Stevenson
“This force that we call love is the greatest energy in the universe.” Maria Montessori Beyond food and shelter, a child’s most basic...
Melinda Cropsey
- Aug 3, 2021
- 1 min
A Well-Spring of Love
This little well-spring is my mom! Now nearly 94, the spark is still glowing!
Melinda Cropsey
- Jul 27, 2021
- 1 min
Breadcrumbs Best Book: Big Bear Hug, by Nicholas Oldland
Big Bear Hug By Nicholas Oldland (2020) Kids Can Press Ltd., Toronto, ON, Canada There’s nothing not to LOVE about Big Bear Hug! Like a...
Melinda Cropsey
- Apr 28, 2021
- 1 min
Magic Light!
“A child’s different inner sensibilities enable him to choose from his complex environment what is suitable and necessary for his growth....
Melinda Cropsey
- Apr 10, 2021
- 1 min
Breadcrumbs Best Book: My Heart, by Corinna Luyken
My Heart By Corinna Luyken (2019) Dial Books for Young Readers, Penguin Random House LLC, New York, NY. The heart is an unfolding...
Melinda Cropsey
- Mar 30, 2021
- 1 min
Spiritual Embryo
Maria Montessori writes that “When a new being comes into existence, it contains within itself mysterious guiding principles which will...
Melinda Cropsey
- Feb 16, 2021
- 1 min
Breadcrumbs Best Book: My Heart Fills With Happiness, by Monique Gray Smith + Julie Flett
My Heart Fills With Happiness By Monique Gray Smith, Illustrations by Julie Flett My Heart Fills With Happiness is a treasure! In all...
Melinda Cropsey
- Feb 8, 2021
- 1 min
LOVE
Painting by Hilma af Klint, 1915
Melinda Cropsey
- Feb 1, 2021
- 1 min
Breadcrumbs Best Book: While We Can’t Hug, by Eoin McLaughlin + illustrated by Polly Dunbar
I think we may have found the perfect, playful, pandemic Valentine!!! ❤️ Eoin McLaughlin’s While We Can’t Hug is a rare gem!!! During...
Melinda Cropsey
- Jan 28, 2021
- 2 min
Nurture Nature!
“Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy...
Melinda Cropsey
- Jan 10, 2021
- 1 min
Breadcrumbs Best Book: I Like Myself, by Karen Beaumont + illustrated by David Catrow
Karen Beaumont’s I Like Myself is a delightful celebration of what it means to be alive and comfortable in your own skin! The story’s...
Melinda Cropsey
- Jan 2, 2021
- 1 min
“Of all things love is the most potent”
“Love is more than the electricity which lightens our darkness, more than the etheric waves that transmit our voices across space, more...
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
- Nov 16, 2020
- 1 min
Breadcrumbs Best Book: All of Me! a book of thanks, by Molly Bang
“Start with what you know!” - What better place to begin to develop a gratitude practice than with yourself?!? All of Me! is a...
Melinda Cropsey
- Oct 5, 2020
- 2 min
Breadcrumbs Best Book: An Awesome Book of Thanks, by Dallas Clayton
Dallas Clayton’s An Awesome Book of Thanks is a treasure and a testament to the infinite number of people, places and things there are to...
Melinda Cropsey
- Aug 31, 2020
- 2 min
Breadcrumbs Best Book: The Whisper, written + illustrated by Pamela Zagarenski
“Never underestimate the creative intelligence of a child.” Maria Montessori Pamela Zagarenski’s The Whisper is a Montessori-must! This...
Melinda Cropsey
- Aug 24, 2020
- 1 min
The Nature of LOVE
“... LOVE - rules the world, keeps the stars in their courses, causes the conjunction of atoms to form new substances, holds things down...
Melinda Cropsey
- Aug 18, 2020
- 1 min
Best Book: Layla’s Happiness, by Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie + illustrated by Ashleigh Corrin
“Children become like the things they love.”1 Maria Montessori Layla is a savvy seven year old who is very much attuned to those things...
Melinda Cropsey
- Aug 6, 2020
- 2 min
Heart-Minded
“One sees rightly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupery Young...
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