Sparkle Stories Blog

When you tell a story, you are offering your listeners engaging images that build another pathway. You are giving them a new way to get to “happiness” or “courage” or wherever they want to go.

You cannot breathe out unless you have breathed in. The light follows the darkness. You cannot wake unless you have slept.

Stories are dreams. They are given in the waking state but they are basically the same thing. Children respond to them the same way too. Their eyes glaze over, their jaws slacken and they are transported. This is a gift. And they are grateful.

In this post our focus is on our highly achieving, industrious and motivating, Earnst Bernard, or EB, Herz, the boy who found the valuable gold nugget, and in a way, also found his own worth.

What are the impacts of screen time? Is it really all that bad? Digging into the facts sometimes results in mixed messages. To build healthy habits, parents may do well to combine what they can glean from current research (link to new blog post) with their own intuition.

Many of us in SparkleLand are experimenting with adding a weekly Day of Rest in our own families. Here are a few tips for February.

Children are at home in woods, on a farm and in their backyards. We know this is true. We can see it in the the way they wander around trees, the way they bend over to study a stone, the way they smile at a flower or widen their eyes at a mushroom.

In this episode, Leo, David, and Rebecca discuss the story “Listening to the Story Whispers” and delve into the intrinsic and practical value of learning both how to hear stories, and how to tell our own.

Start your own family day of rest for the new year! The main idea is to create a special day to slow down, spend time together, and recharge.

Join Lisabeth on a journey of self-discovery as she shares the transformative realization about the stories we tell ourselves. Explore the stories that limit and those that empower, and discover the wisdom in rewriting your narrative.