Welcome to this blog. . .

Welcome to this blog made from my blog-type thoughts as Director of Religious Education, or DRE, at the Unitarian Church of Montreal. They are excerpted from the weekly letters I send to all families and helpers in our RE (or Religious Ed) program. If you would like to be put on the e-mailing list for this letter, usually over half full of reminders and announcements, questions and quotes, with occasional thoughtful paragraphs, please contact dre@ucmtl.ca

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Happy St Patrick's Day!

I hope you are enjoying the current March warmth and brightness! Maybe you have even been wearing some green for St Patrick --or have seen some glimpse of green grass. On my just-over Toronto trip I did see lots of yellow willow tree and red oosier dogwood branches, giving suprising colour to the end-of-winter scenery.

As I have mentioned before, there are some terrific parent resources for helping crying infants sleep, managing toddlers tantrums, fostering adolescent success, building emotionally resiliant children, etc, including some new free teleseminars, to be found at: www.handinhandparenting.org/ - I have known of the work of this organization for many years and will be happy to share more about it with anyone interested.

The last yoga session planned for this year for Spirit Play, featured a story about Ganesha, the elephant headed god of Hinduism. These special winter movement sessions have gone so well we are considering offering yoga-with-stories once a month next year –comments welcome!

Appropos of next year, please remember our annual « RE Conversation with the Minister » that will take place March 27th at 9 am –it will be a special breakfast, followed by childcare fun for the children while you share your thoughts about RE programming and your family’s needs. We are interested in feedback about French RE, children's choir timing, and Spirit Play in general [to learn more about the latter, checkout http://www.spiritplay.net/

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