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York Steiner School marks 40th anniversary year

September 27, 2021

"It inspires me to think what has been achieved with hardly a penny in the bank, just the power of an ideal and a group of passionate people," says Michael Rose, one of the founder members behind the development of York Steiner School - now a thriving modern school in Fulford. With around 250 children in baby, parent and child groups, three kindergartens and eight main school classes, the school attracts highly qualified teachers and language and music specialists from around the world and hosts the Steiner NESTT (North of England Steiner Teacher Training) courses. More »

Constant craving: how digital media turned us all into dopamine addicts

September 20, 2021

The bespectacled 53-year-old psychiatrist has written an influential book about the prescription-drug epidemic, delivered Ted Talks on America’s opioid crisis and appeared as a talking head in the 2020 Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma to discuss the drug that is social media. She’s a whiz on why we get hooked on things – and how we can enjoy pleasurable things in healthier doses. Her new book, Dopamine Nation, emphasises that we are now all addicts to a degree. She calls the smartphone the “modern-day hypodermic needle”: we turn to it for quick hits, seeking attention, validation and distraction with each swipe, like and tweet. More »

Lily Solomon, recent Toronto Waldorf graduate, to Represent Canada at World Mounted Games

August 30, 2021

There has been a lot of focus on Team Canada’s performances at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. But there is another international equestrian event where one young rider from Stouffville, Ontario, is going to try her best to win. Lily Solomon, 19, will be representing Canada at the World Individual Mounted Games Championships  (WIC) held at the David Broome Center in Chepstow, Wales, this year. The event draws over 200 riders for a series of games that involve high speed, high agility, and teamwork and trust between the rider, their horse and their teammates. More »

Let Children Experience Boredom

July 27, 2021

While Søren Kierkegaard warned, “Boredom is the root of all evil,” psychologists, neurologists and child development experts disagree. While we may fear a idle teen or toddler (and every age in between) discovering trouble through idleness, studies show letting a child experience boredom is better for their creativity and problem solving than handing them a screen or over scheduling their lives.    Experts agree: just let them be bored. No rescuing, no ideas, no schedule and no screens. Just let our children sit in the stew of inactivity. But why? Because boredom, according to Italian Human and Social Sciences researcher, Palmira Faraci, leads to one of three outcomes and two of them are beneficial. More »

Homegrown for Good

June 14, 2021

On a recent morning in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, Karin Jokela and her daughter, two-year-old Ani, are exploring the wildlife flitting and buzzing about their backyard produce garden. Ani inspects a bumble bee on a coneflower, one of many native flowering plants growing among Jokela’s vegetables, herbs and berries. “Is this the mama bee?” Ani asks, leaning closer—clearly intrigued by the busy visitor. Jokela, a conservation biologist with the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, nurtures her daughter’s appreciation for the wildlife drawn to their food garden. Among the most exciting visitors have been the endangered rusty patched bumble bee. More-common native insects include pollinating sweat and squash bees, pest-eating wasps and ambush bugs and soil-building tiger and ground beetles. More »

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