Cottage Co-Op Nursery School
Cart 0
Home About Us Programs Teachers Blog View of Cottage
Giving
Get Started Application Process Open House Info Sessions FAQ Co-Op Information Tuition Assistance Application
Current Families Events Calendar Donate: Annual Fund Parent Handbook The Board Summer Camp Parent Ed Alumni Donors, Thank You! Food Allergies
Cart 0
HomeAbout UsPrograms Admissions Get Started Application Process Open House Info Sessions FAQ Co-Op Information Tuition Assistance Application Families Current Families Events Calendar Donate: Annual Fund Parent Handbook The Board Summer Camp Parent Ed Alumni Donors, Thank You! Food Allergies TeachersBlogView of Cottage
Cottage Co-Op Nursery School
Where Parents & Children Grow Together Through Play
Giving
Featured
Embodiment
Embodiment

In the last few years, I have heard a lot about embodiment. I’m not clear whether it’s my age as a woman in my late forties, or the popularization of things like yoga and therapy, or a growing awareness of our sensory systems, or some combination, but in my life, at least, the idea has become too loud to ignore. I want to talk about how embodiment is a goal for our preschool aged children, so that they aren’t beginning their journey to being a friend to their own body in middle age. 


"Bad Words"
"Bad Words"

Sometimes it works best to interrupt just as something is taking place– the equivalent of grabbing their hand to prevent them running off in a busy parking lot. And sometimes it’s far more effective to wait for a quiet moment, and circle back. 


Summer Stories 2024
Summer Stories 2024
Learning to Get Dressed
Learning to Get Dressed

…we are so often in a hurry, with an important agenda and a timetable. During the “Tarry Time” of Cottage, we can take the opportunity to slow down and stay curious, remembering that it takes time to learn, but that freely chosen work is always the most compelling.

Nervous/Excited Energy
Nervous/Excited Energy

For attentive, caring adults, ostensibly supporting children’s emotional regulation, our goal is to utilize the tool of co-regulation: a set of signals between people that send the message to our nervous system that we are safe.

Art Appreciation
Art Appreciation

 There is so much unseen work that goes into a child making a painting like this, and it cannot be skipped.


Good Clean Dirt
Good Clean Dirt

In the span of the last generation or so, we have removed most of the opportunities our kids have had for free play. We seem to have convinced ourselves that enrichment classes would be like play, but better, because a grown-up is in charge of it. It won’t get too chaotic, there won’t be so much arguing. Everyone will line up and do the thing when the adult in charge tells them to do it, and they will be getting exercise, and they will be around other children, and they will burn off some of that infernal energy that has them resist bedtime and makes them climb the furniture like monkeys. 


The Courage to be Vulnerable
The Courage to be Vulnerable

Without the courage to be vulnerable with each other, there’s no room for compassion and for connection, which is the best part of being human. 


Sibling Co-Dependency (Guest post by Teacher Wallace Yovetich)
Sibling Co-Dependency (Guest post by Teacher Wallace Yovetich)

 Every child deserves a childhood to the best of our abilities to give them one. I am observing that “fairness” is really a distraction of our thoughts and our best parenting intentions rather than a concept that any of us could actually define in any conclusive way; here is your permission to question it.-Wallace

Cottage as a verb
Cottage as a verb

I was having shower thoughts this morning about how some of us here use "Cottage” as a verb. I am not personally in this habit but I understand it, and agree that it is somehow an action as well as a school, and a community. And I was thinking about how important our shared language is in the way we do the thing we do when we are Cottage-ing. 


Cottage co-op Nursery school

169 Arlington Dr
Pasadena, CA 91105
(626) 799-0387

cottagelogo2_trans.jpg
 

Info

Our Teachers
Programs
Life at Cottage
Parent Ed
Admissions
Blog
Families

Action

Parent Ed Events
Admissions Events
Giving

Board Meeting Agendas & Minutes

Sign up for emails
Contact us

© 2023 Cottage Co-Op

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY  

Cottage Co-Op Nursery School School is a nonprofit organization and does not discriminate by race, color, national or ethnic origin, creed, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, disability or status. Cottage admits members of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to members at the school and does not discriminate on any of these bases in administration of its hiring, educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school-administered programs.

Cottage Co-op Nursery School
169 Arlington Drive,
Pasadena, CA, 91105,
United States
(626) 799-0387
Hours
Contact Us