🌸 Little Bodies, Big Seasons: Helping Kids Tune Into Themselves Through Solstice Rituals 🌸

Today is Beltane!

For those who don’t know—Beltane is a celebration of earth’s blossoming,

the fiery, joy-filled midpoint between spring equinox and summer solstice.

It’s the season when the earth surges with life:

flowers bloom, leaves are abundant, bees dance among blossoms,

and the sun offers longer, brighter light over us.

And here’s what I want you to know, both as a parent and as a homeschooling mama:

This isn’t just poetry.

It’s science.

It’s biology.

It’s magic.

It’s embodiment.

It’s all part of an expansive human experience.

Right now, as the light returns,

plants are pulling in sunlight,

turning it into sugars through photosynthesis,

fueling their growth, and feeding the entire web of life.

The extra sunlight feeds the trees,

the trees gift us oxygen,

and the oxygen fuels the little lungs running barefoot through the grass,

the little legs climbing trees,

the little hands weaving dandelion crowns.

And that’s what I bring to my homeschooling.

I don’t separate science from soul,

biology from wonder,

body from earth,

or mind from magic.

I invite my children to learn that:

🦋 Their body is part of the earth’s cycles.

🦋 The rise of energy they feel in spring is a natural, biological response to light.

🦋 The food they eat comes from sunlight, water, and soil transformed by plant life.

🦋 The rituals we practice—lighting a candle, jumping over a fire, making a flower crown—are ways to feel and honor the rhythms they are already alive within us all.

Little bodies, big seasons.

Little rituals, big science.

Little minds, big magic.

When we help our children notice the turning of the year,

we’re not just teaching them facts.

We’re giving them tools to feel their belonging in the natural world.

We’re saying:

🌸 “You are not separate from the trees, the sun, the earth.”

🌸 “Your body is not wrong for wanting more rest in winter or more movement in spring.”

🌸 “You don’t have to choose between science and spirit.

They belong together—just like you belong here.”

So today, on Beltane,

I invite my children (and yours) to pause and feel:

🔥 The warmth of the sun on their skin.

🔥 The hum of energy rising in their bones.

🔥 The wonder of knowing the oxygen in their lungs was made by the greening trees.

🔥 The miracle that every bite of food came from sunlight transformed into nourishment.

This is how I homeschool.

This is how I parent.

This is how I walk the world with my children:

Fusing science, earth wisdom, body awareness, and ritual—

because together, they shape a full, expansive, human experience.

Not rushed.

Not behind.

Not fragmented.

Just beautifully, naturally,

wonderfully whole.

Blessed Beltane, to my loves known and unknown.

May you and the children in your life dance in your bodies today,

breathe in the light-fed air,

and remember:

you are part of the great turning,

the great belonging,

the great miracle of life.

PS: If you imagined this last bit read in the grounding voice of the late James Earl Jones—I have done my job correctly. 😜