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May Day Fun: Dandelion Soup Recipe
Picking dandelions. You know the saying, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade? Well, we decided to apply that to dandelions last week! It all started when we walked outside to see a sea of...
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Migrate to Mongolia: A Tender Sapling Travelers Cultural Adventure – Part 2...
This post is part of the Tender Sapling Travelers Series and Part 2 of a 3-part installment on Mongolia. See Part 1 here. After a wonderful introduction to Mongolia, covered in our Part 1 post, our...
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5 DIY Ways to Pamper Mama this Mother’s Day
What will you do this Mother’s Day for the sweet mama in your life? As a parent working on mindfulness and striving to raise mindful tender saplings, I find this American holiday a great way to teach...
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Mama – Magic in the World
A magical mama-baby moment. Forget Harry Potter for a moment. There is real magic in the world. And it’s sprinkled everywhere. It’s in you, mama! This day (Mother’s Day in the United States) always...
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Homemade Yogurt Grows Good Cultures + Character too!
Want a fun food project to enjoy with the kids that’s healthy, green, globally-loved, and cultivates some wonderful qualities of the heart too? Look no further: Yogurt! How can all these lessons be...
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The Art of Bending
There’s a wonderful and little-discussed parenting skill I’ve learned to admire that I call Bending. Tendersaplingmama is like a jedi master at bending. I’m still learning. To use a well-worn analogy...
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Celebrating Peace Day with Tender Sapling
Origami Peace Crane We are so excited to be headed momentarily to the Green Festival in Washington, DC, where we will be hosting a Peace Day Celebration tomorrow! We will also have a booth with a small...
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Gratitude Challenge: Words + Actions
“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.” - A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh With Thankgiving around the corner, tendersaplingdada...
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Acorn Wisdom Revisted
In honor of Father’s Day, here’s a repost of Acorn Wisdom – my own father’s magical way of sharing insight into life with his children and grandchildren. Wishing all the dads and granddads a Happy...
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Sneak Peek of the Virtues Tree (Tender Sapling’s newest product-in-development)
Here it is! A sneak peek of a labor-of-love product we’ve been working on over the last year – The Virtues Tree! Back when our first son struggled to help us clean up toys and to smile at strangers (or...
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