UU@Home Summer Activity Guide
UU rituals and practices: every day for every age. “…ritual is less about profound transitions and more about daily practices…They organize our emotional lives, prompt us to count our blessings along with our grievances, remind us to look up and out more often… They offer a sort of gentle time outside of time.” -Courtney E. Martin on the onBeing blog from September 4, 2015 Creating “gentle time…
An Open Letter To Teachers in the Midst of Distance Learning
I see you—you are tired and frustrated and learning all the new tools that you need to teach the kids who may or may not be paying attention to you on the other end of the video call. You are worried about your students and their families, and you want nothing more than to be safely face-to-face with them, to see that they are…
Calm, Cool and Collected
It finally happened. I have been working with my 3 and 5 year old kids on naming emotions and finding coping mechanisms for anger and frustration from the time that they were wee babes, and wouldn’t you know it, they have gone and thrown it all right back in my face. “Uhm, mom, I think… maybe you need to find something calm to do. You…
Kids Live Here
Kids live here. Sometimes it takes a two-year-old armed with a stolen blue sharpie and a big imagination to remind us of that. Kids live here, Sometimes we follow their whims… …and sometimes they even let us play along. Kids live here, This home is where we nurture the imagination, and let them be who they are. Kids live here, And sometimes we dare…
Being UU at Home
When I was growing up it was always safe to assume that the only Unitarian Universalist kids attending whatever school I was enrolled in at the time also lived in my house. In other words, UU kids were kind of hard to come by outside of our home and church. I remember how hard it was for me to know just how to handle…
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