We are one: Hooves of the path, Online Conference

October 3, 2025

Harvesting our knowledge. Elder spoke of transitions of animals, survival, hunters, the cycle, each season provides food on the land.
Elder Sempulyan says there’s a season where we don’t hunt, the animals prepare and replenish to bring on the next generation. We should also include the children by asking them what animals are staying and going, their answers may surprise you, they may know more than you think. Children come up with amazing answers. Engage with them, we help with their brain development, teach them young so that they may learn the language, not just one language, but many. Children are observant, so ask them, why do the frogs and lizards barrow in the dirt before winter?
Anita (elder) goes to say, include them in preserving canned goods. Anita says when the children help make raspberry jam, and share it with the community, the children can look back on it and feel pride. Singing helps with brain development and it helps with words, it’s the repetition.

Russel talks about healthy sleep for children.
what he had to say was more for parents at home. there was a topic I didn’t really agree with. Melatonin and children(prescribed by Doctor), but he goes to mentions, there may be children who take the medication to help them sleep. I do understand that there are people who believe in it, but I can’t.
He goes on to talk other possibilities of troublesome sleep in children, autism, trauma, mental health-stress. It’s important to read your children, do they have enough energy for the day?
Sleep drive, as a person who works with children, the educators need be asking the parents, what is naptime like at home? is it weekends? weekdays? consistent with the time they go for their nap? any specifications like no/light, weighed blanket, music or quiet environment, etc. Maybe it’s overstimulating for the child at daycare than at home.

Share the success stories about nap time at home and at daycare. succuss is the thing that we can do to help with nap time.

Busy Box
“the box” can be anything, doesn’t have to be a box, people use a wicker basket, storage bin, luggage. what interested me more about the box was try and convert it to a more traditional box like cedar or weaved basket.
Anything can be added to it at an appropriate age range.
The items in the box could have its purpose, help with transitions, sensory, motor development, keep children focused and calm, imagination and learning. switching the items around to keep it interesting or to the children’s interests.
again what interested me was about traditional items to add to the box. culturally rich items.

Anita Frost-Rainbow
being present with the seasons, if you’re not paying attentions, in a blink of an eye, the season will be over, and before you know it, you have to go through the season over again
regulate ourself by taking deep breaths, humming a song, singing and setting boundaries. finding our sacred NO! it’s taking care of your own energy. Letting go and release. Save save save for yourself. Rest isn’t earned, rest in inherited.
We need to model self care, what could be accomplished if you are well rested?