old challenges, new day
I’m back from Vietnam, newly married, and diving back into the fray of life in my home cluster—back to the Chinatown children’s class I’ve been writing about for the past few months (1, 2, 3, 4, 5,...
View Articlebaha’i children’s class symposium
Today, baha’i children’s class ideas is live-blogging and tweeting the Baha’i Children’s Class Symposium, organized by the Baha’i Community of Ottawa, Canada. Although the Symposium is now over, you...
View Articleprayer, a loving conversation with god (take 2)
Today’s lesson: prayer, a loving conversation with god. September 5, 2012: Week 2 of this lesson! Our first weekday evening class, and it seems to have gone off brilliantly, all told. We’re starting to...
View Articleprayer, spiritual nourishment
Today’s lesson: prayer, spiritual nourishment. September 26, 2012: First things first: Class went really well. We had a group of a good size—six children, most of whom participated pretty actively in...
View Articlea day at a vietnamese kindergarten
My sister-in-law, Quyên, runs a kindergarten out of her home in Danang, Vietnam. She and her husband had to take a trip to Huế this weekend, so Quỳnh and I came over to help out. Here’s how the day...
View Articlecooperation and reciprocity (take 4)
Today’s lesson: cooperation and reciprocity. June 15, 2013: 5 children, 7–10 years old. For the past little while (starting this winter, in fact), our junior youth have been planning a service project:...
View Articlesummer note
As summer arrives here in the Northern hemisphere, the time is ripe for reflection on another season of our neighbourhood children’s class. While we definitely can’t say we’ve achieved some of our most...
View Articlegarbage pickup day!
July 13, 2013: Due to some logistical problems—our usual host and some of the children were away, we couldn’t get rides for the rest—we decided to do something a little different. We brought gloves and...
View Articleshifting gears for summertime
Another year of classes has gone by, and here we are, well into the summer season, looking back on what we’ve accomplished this year. Since the baby came last fall, our biggest challenge has been to...
View Articlelove (take 3)
Today’s lesson: love. November 8, 2015: ~1.5 hours, 6 children, average age 9. It was a busy week this week, so I wasn’t able to prepare quite as well as I would have liked, but since I was familiar...
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