Mindfulness 3/3

Melinda Cropsey

Breadcrumbs Best Book: Where Happiness Begins, by Eva Eland

HOT OFF THE PRESS! Dutch author-illustrator Eva Eland’s debut children’s book, When Sadness is at Your Door, was featured as a...

Melinda Cropsey

READ - REFLECT - LOVE

“The child is a well-spring of love.”1 - Maria Montessori Social distancing may present a unique opportunity to develop social-emotional...

Melinda Cropsey

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

Takin' It Down....

Consciously slowed breathing is a power tool when it comes to emotional self-regulation! (There are countless iterations:...

Melinda Cropsey

“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

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

Breadcrumbs Best Book: Tomorrow Most Likely, by Dave Eggers & Lane Smith

Nothing is certain in life, but many things are... “most likely”! This wildly delightful book chronicles a young boy’s vision of the day...

Melinda Cropsey

CALM is the Balm!

“The special object of a child’s affection is the adult… Through his actions an adult shows a child how men behave.”1 -Maria Montessori...