Melinda Cropsey
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...
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the heart is no education at all."
- Aristotle
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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 27, 2020
- 1 min
Breadcrumbs Best Book: Be Brave Little One, written and illustrated by Marianne Richmond
“Be brave to begin to listen inside to the voice of your heart, so truthful and wise.” I don’t know anyone who couldn’t use an extra...
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 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
- 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
- Sep 8, 2020
- 1 min
It’s getting a little prickly out there!
I don’t know about you, but I’ve certainly noticed that it’s getting a little prickly out there! It seems we’re in the midst of the...
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 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...
Melinda Cropsey
- Aug 1, 2020
- 1 min
Breadcrumbs Best Book: Wonderful Me, I Love All of Me, by Lorie Ann Grover + Carolina Buzio
Wonderful Me, I Love All of Me is a perfect primer for developing a healthy self-concept! There are far too few books out there on this...
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
- Jul 2, 2020
- 2 min
Nurture Mother Nature
“...when children come into contact with nature, they reveal their strength.”1 - Maria Montessori - The Discovery of the Child Maria...
Melinda Cropsey
- Jun 25, 2020
- 1 min
Breadcrumbs Best Book: Isle of You, by David LaRochelle + illustrated by Jaime Kim
When you’re feeling sad or blue, the very best resource may be YOU! Sometimes the best way OUT of a dark humor or situation… is IN. ...
Melinda Cropsey
- Jun 5, 2020
- 2 min
Where is your quiet, happy place?
“To exist and mix with our fellow men we must sometimes retire into solitude and acquire strength; only then do we look with love on the...
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
- May 14, 2020
- 1 min
Breadcrumbs Best Book: In a Jar, by Deborah Marcero
If the cover illustration alone isn’t enough to send you racing to order In a Jar from your local bookstore... rest assured that In a Jar...
Melinda Cropsey
- Apr 28, 2020
- 1 min
Breadcrumbs Best Book: Words and Your Heart, by Kate Jane Neal
“How about we use our words to look after each other’s hearts?” Underscoring the impact that words can have on the heart, is British...
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...
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