For families

Family Culture Code

Our Family Culture Code is a guide to partnering with us. It explains how we guide children at school, the independence we expect from them, and how families can bring the same approach home. Families who connect with these ideas tend to have the smoothest, happiest experience at Wind Rose.

The Parent

You are your child’s first role model. Teach empathy, set clear and kind limits, keep a steady routine, include your child in real work at home, and talk them through the day.

The Environment

Less is more. Rotate a few good toys, set up little spaces for small people, arrange the home so you rarely need to say “no,” and care for the planet together.

The Child

Nurture intrinsic motivation over “good job,” welcome boredom as a chance to create, and teach ahead of time with simple, age-appropriate choices.

Additional Recommended Viewing

Being responsible for children means one must be ever learning. These video share great insight on child rearing strategies.

Miss Donna gives parents at her school a presentation in useful discipline strategies. We have outlined them in our “The Child: Discipline” slide seen above.

This TED talk asks parents to reflect on their child’s negative behaviors.

“Kids do well if they can.” vs “Kids do well if they want to.”

How did your parents respond to you as a child when you were upset?

Can you see the impact of their imprints in your life as an adult?

What is the magic ingredient when raising an emotionally intelligent child?

This talk explores all these questions along with how the lack of emotional literacy in our culture has significant power when it comes to the way we parent. It explores how compassion, empathy and mindfulness have a place in raising children – as well as in our education system. If connection, listening, and heart were at the center of every relationship, how different could our world be?