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Check out our Halloween video here ! Halloween has always been the most festive day of the year at our school, but this year’s...

Arriving at school, a four-year-old has an unpleasant surprise. She reaches in her jacket pocket for her mask, but pulls out only a...

“I’m sad my friend played with someone else the whole time after lunch.” Once up a time, best practices for raising a happy child meant...

GoFundMe Site Supports Refugees Taken In by Meher Schools Family Haylene Anesoir, the mother of Pearla in first grade and Marielle in...

Halloween gives all of us the opportunity to understand what kinds of scary images are manageable and fun for children and which ones...

Imagine finally making the long trip to a grandparent’s house after months away, then within hours having to leave because your child’s...

Just off the Tier 3 driveway, behind a storage shed in a fenced-off area that was once our “Beetopia” garden, lies the largest rock on...

“If you want to help, help, help, we can do it. We can clean, we can help, help, help.” A group of preschoolers sang these lyrics...

This is the third in a series about our Nurtured Heart Approach trainers who work at The Meher Schools. in a series. Before she became...

This is the fourth in a series where we summarize and discuss a chapter of the book The Inner Wealth Initiative, by Howard Glasser,...

Juan is a Meher Schools parent and member of the Equity & Inclusion Committee. For the first time after many years of embracing,...

This is the second in a series about our Nurtured Heart Approach trainers who work at The Meher Schools. "My dedication to using the...

“I know my voice can sound a little intense sometimes when I’m under stress, so I try to tune in to the way I sound with my co-workers,”...

We first learned about the Nurtured Heart Approach in 2002 in a flyer for a workshop in South San Francisco. “The timing was perfect,”...

The Nurtured Heart Approach helps us deal with many complicated issues in a straightforward, transformative way. One example is the...

Children who can identify their feelings are less likely to express them in aggressive ways. Feelings charts help children identify their...

“If I’m around people right now, I might bite someone,” a preschooler explained. She wanted to stay in the quiet space she had created...

I never learned to blow bubble gum and pop it. My granddaughter told me it’s never too late and kindly broke bubble blowing into steps:...

Including the spring and summer, there are 22 Meher Schools staff members who attended the school as children. We asked this special...

In our last issue, we noted that 22 of our staff members are Meher Schools alumni. Now that Brenda Barnhart has returned to the fold,...