Because of your concern for young children, we invite you to join in forming and making known a new vision of childcare and parent education that can transform the care of young children. Called LifeWays, it incorporates the insights of Rudolf Steiner with contemporary insights of Joseph Chilton Pearce, Jane Healy, Barry Sanders, David Elkind, Stanley Greenspan, Berry Brazelton and the work of the late Hungarian pediatrician Emmi Pikler. In LifeWays, care focuses around the importance of relationship, continuity of care, and taking the home and nurturing arts as a foundation. LifeWays North America provides the opportunity for individuals, parent educators, childcare homes and centers, to join in support of young children and their families in a variety of ways:

Join the LifeWays Network
If you feel that your work is in alignment with the LifeWays ideals and principles and wish to have your program listed on our website, please send your information to us for posting. Though self-affiliation does not involve a direct endorsement from LifeWays North America, we will encourage families to contact the listed individuals and centers to see for themselves how they manifest the LifeWays approach. To view a list of those asking to be posted on our website, click on LifeWays Network

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Sponsorship of The Introduction to LifeWays Seminar in Your Area
We are pleased to announce the development of the LifeWays Introductory Seminar - a two-day course introducing the fundamental principles and practices of LifeWays childcare and parent support. This is a traveling seminar that will come to your area. It is a great opportunity for a group of caregivers, parent educators and parents to come together for an inspirational learning experience. We can only book a few of these a year, so put in your request now. Please call 405 579-0999 to see what dates are still available to bring us to you!

Become an Exemplary LifeWays Center
We are also interested in shepherding the development of a few child care homes and centers that can serve as exemplars and carry the name LifeWays in their title if they choose. Consulting and criteria are being developed to help these endeavors stand as examples and mentors to others wanting to work out of the LifeWays ideals and principles. Therefore, we respectfully ask that you not use the name LifeWays in your title without contacting us for an evaluation. But we encourage you to use "LifeWays" to describe the type of care you are providing - the articulation of this approach is designed to serve you as caregivers/teachers and your families.