After six years of research, piloting and preparation the Breadcrumbs Curriculum is ready for YOU! (Check out: www.breadcrumbssel.com)...

The Breadcrumbs Curriculum Cards are “IN”! Thanks to the beautiful illustrations created by our Artistic Director Giada Rose and Evan...

The most distinguishing feature of the Breadcrumbs Curriculum (www.breadcrumbssel.com) is its incorporation of the labyrinth as a tool...

What do tea bags, potato chips, silly putty, velcro and chocolate chip cookies have in common? They were ALL invented by mistake!...

“Our work as adults does not consist in teaching, but in helping the infant mind in its work of development.” Maria Montessori Maria...

A Quiet Happy Place, A Children’s Introduction to the Labyrinth By Melinda M. Cropsey (2017) HP Publishing, Longmeadow, MA. This first...

According to a recent NPR Life Kit segment entitled: How to Help Your Kids Reframe their Anxiety and Reclaim Their Superpowers (link...

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...

There are countless reasons to enjoy heart-centered reflection and meditation.  Goodness knows we are all in need of tools to help us:...

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. ...

“... 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...

“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...

My goal in writing Penelope’s Superpower was to offer young children a tool for quieting their minds, self-soothing and connecting to the...

“Does not love make us sensible to things which are not noticed by others? Does it not reveal to us details and special qualities that...

For some months now, I’ve been enjoying piloting a “Breadcrumbs Basics” curriculum for the very young—children between the ages of 2-4. ...

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

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,...

We’ve been breaking down the Breadcrumbs Superpower Breathing Practice: “I place my hands on my heart, And a smile on my face..." Today,...

“The child… is born of love, and love is his natural origin.”1 -Maria Montessori One of the Breadcrumbs Curriculum’s most profound and...

… and why is it such a hot topic today? STRESS is the number one reason social-emotional learning is such a hot topic today! We are...