The Secret Kindergarten | For Grown-ups

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The Secret Kindergarten is here to support parents of young children. In this channel you will find the podcast for 'Grown-ups',  parents and carers of young children. This show has been created to encourage and support families, friends and communities of young children so we all can be our own "early childhood educators". The Secret Kindergarten is created and hosted by Gino Volante, an ex-early childhood education teacher. Gino wants to see young children bonded with caring adults in the right way. This will affirm their connection with Nature, which will naturally push back against the indoctrination agendas and create a future of freedom for humanity. https://thesecretkindergarten.com/ The Secret Kindergarten has also a podcast for Young Children (roughly aged 2.5 to 7), with fun and enjoyable content, free of indoctrination and sinister agendas. The children's show is thought provoking and encourages connecting with our young.  Check it out on https://thesecretkindergarten.com/ or on the podcast platform where you are now!

  1. The Secret Kindergarten

    01/01/2025

    The Secret Kindergarten

    Gino and Giulia would like to thank you for tuning in to the Secret Kindergarten in 2024. In this episode, we re-cap the journey of the online content from 2019. Gino talks about the experiences leading up to the decision to create content online. This episode re-visits some of the activities that exemplify what adults can do to engage their patience, create a fun-loving playful connection and build their intuition. This is the Secret Kindergarten where you become able to receive symbolic messages to guide you and your family toward freedom. You can find all of the episodes of The Secret Kindergarten Grown Ups Edition here: https://thesecretkindergarten.com/category/tsk-for-grown-ups/ The Secret Kindergarten is live every Saturday 2.00pm-3.00pm Eastern Time on Revolution Radio (Studio A): https://www.revolution.radio/.

    47 min
  2. Buy a Computer for Your Seven Year Old

    12/22/2024

    Buy a Computer for Your Seven Year Old

    We compare the child, before seven years old, with the child at seven years of age. As we continue our exploration of initiation rites at the age of seven, we begin to discover that we may not need candles and Latin incantations to mark one of the most important times in a child's life. Coming into the Christmas, it is synchronistic to highlight the importance of family bonding at age seven, just as it is important at Christmas time. Books Rybanska, Veronika. (2020). The Impact of Ritual on Child Cognition. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. https://www.amazon.com/Impact-Cognition-Scientific-Studies-Religion/dp/135010891X Ames, Lousie Bates, Ph.D. & Haber, Carol Chase, M.A. (1985). Your Seven-Year-Old: Life in a Minor Key. Dell Publishing. https://www.amazon.com/Your-Seven-Year-Old-Life-Minor-Key/dp/0440506506 Heindel, Max. (1909). The Rosicrucian Principles of Child Training. The Rosicrucian Fellowship. https://rosicrucian.com/rct/rcteng01.htm _____________________ The Secret Kindergarten is live every Saturday 2.00pm-3.00pm Eastern Time on Revolution Radio (Studio A): https://www.revolution.radio/. https://thesecretkindergarten.com/

    48 min
  3. Sweat Lodge Stories with Mitzie

    12/16/2024

    Sweat Lodge Stories with Mitzie

    Geri Quintero is a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner, a GAPS diet practitioner and accomplished herbalist practicing out of the Yreka Healing Arts Centre in Yreka Caifornia. She is also the host of Brigid's Well, on Revolution.Radio Studio A, Tuesdays 8pm-10pm ET. Geri, AKA Mitzie, shares anecdotes relating to coming-of-age rites of the Indigenous People of the Americas. Her stories, shared in this episode, show that these initiations are more about honouring the individual as part of the community, the world and nature. A theme of acceptance seems to be at play, while the rites and celebrations seem to counter the current western indoctrination system and cultural norms. This episode encourages the possibility of marking milestones in the family with celebrations and activities as an antidote to our current situation! Links Geri's website: https://geriquintero.com/ Revolution Radio: https://revolution.radio/ ___________________ The Secret Kindergarten is live every Saturday 2.00pm-3.00pm Eastern Time on Revolution Radio (Studio A): https://www.revolution.radio/. https://thesecretkindergarten.com/

    49 min
  4. Searching for The Right Rites

    12/12/2024

    Searching for The Right Rites

    Are initiation rituals necessary? Are they just "there" and no special mind needs to paid to them? Should we look back to our ancient past and revive ceremony in order to create a better future for humanity? In this series on initiation, we are searching for ways to improve the transition of the seven-year-old into consciousness. Are there rituals families and communities can do, that change the lives of seven-year-olds and create a better future for humanity? Let's find out! LINKS Rudolf Steiner Lecture: Children from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Years II 3 January 1922, Stuttgart https://rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA303/English/AP2003/19220103d01.html BOOKS Steiner, R. (1923). The Child's Changing Consciousness - As the Basis of Pedagogical Practice. Anthroposophic Press. https://rsarchive.org/Search.php?q=child%27s+changing+consciousness Lomas, Robert. (2008). The Secret Science of Masonic Initiation. Lewis Masonic. https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781530027231 Alli, Antero. (1987). All Rites Reversed?! Ritual Technology for Self-Initiation. https://www.amazon.com/All-Rites-Reversed-Technology-Initiation/dp/0941404811 Miller, Dean (Ed.). (2015). The Seasons: Natural Rites and Traditions. Cavendish Square Publishing. https://www.abebooks.com/9781627126786/Seasons-Natural-Rites-Traditions-Man-1627126783/plp ____________ The Secret Kindergarten is live every Saturday 2.00pm-3.00pm Eastern Time on Revolution Radio (Studio A): https://www.revolution.radio/.

    45 min
  5. Jack and The Beanstalk | Decoding Fairy Tales

    12/01/2024

    Jack and The Beanstalk | Decoding Fairy Tales

    Jack and The Beanstalk most likely was written a very long time ago. Marie Cachet and Varg Vikerenes' decoding, or maieutics appear to be rock solid. Linking back to the bear-cult of the stone age, Jack and the Beanstalk explains important knowledge of procreation, child development and spirituality. Through allegory and symbol, the story explains pregnancy, childbirth and the reincarnation of the ancestor in the child at age seven. This episode feels like the deeper we go, the more we are barely scratching the surface. There is evidence of the footprints of seven-year-old footprints in prominent positions of ancient ritual sites in France. This further emphasises the societal importance of the transition from early childhood to age seven and the change of teeth. With the number seven popping up in fairy tales, we have found a lead into our next topic: to find solutions to contemporary problems by looking at old ways. Books Vikernes, Varg & Cachet, Marie. (2017). Paganism Explained Part 2: Little Red Riding Hood & Jack and The Beanstalk. Marie Cachet. https://www.burzum.org/eng/library/paganism_explained_01_thrymskvida.shtml Cachet, Marie. (2017). The Secret of The She-Bear: An Unexpected Key to Understand European Mythologies, Traditions and Tales. CreateSpace. https://archive.org/details/cachet-marie-the-secret-of-the-she-bear-an-unexpected-key-to-understand-european Olderr, Steven. (2012). Symbolism: A Comprehensive Dictionary. McFarland & Company. https://www.amazon.com/Symbolism-Comprehensive-Dictionary-Steven-Older/dp/0786469552 ___________________ The Secret Kindergarten is live every Saturday 2.00pm-3.00pm Eastern Time on Revolution Radio (Studio A): https://www.revolution.radio/ https://thesecretkindergarten.com/

    1h 55m
  6. Kids Like to (Pretend to) Die

    11/16/2024

    Kids Like to (Pretend to) Die

    One of the themes in children's dramatic play is the theme of death. Children's play involves death and and there must be a reason for it. This play sends a signal of re-incarnation, a message that our consciousness goes on after the body dies. It represents the archetypal symbolism of death. Death, in the tarot, has a meaning of transformation. The children expressing their current paradigm of a need to transform and to individuate. They are also expressing our current paradigm of involution, which is the present appropriation of the death card in tarot. The control system of government is a mechanism for involution and entropy. Death is the god that is "worshipped" by those in power. Selfishness at all costs and destruction of the other. When we are able to find a way through and nurture our children to become free-thinking and free-spirited, we will create a free world without the current death system. The death card will become a symbol of evolution and new beginnings. What then will the children teach us through their dramatic play? Will "death-play" still bubble up at the frequency it currently does? One way to release the grip, that the death-card has on humanity now, is to read the true fairy tales to our children. The solution is to read fairy tales in all their death and glory. Links Article on Death Play from HealGrief.Org: https://healgrief.org/children-death-play-normal/ Ordal, Carol C. (1984). Death as Seen in Books Suitable for Young Children. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.2190/W04T-7CAN-LT3B-XBQD Mark Passio on the Tarot (watch this, then start his podcast from episode one!): https://whatonearthishappening.com/podcast/667-woeih-show-218 Books Pearce, Joseph Chilton. (1977). Magical Child: Rediscovering Nature's Plan for Our Children. E.P. Dutton. https://archive.org/details/magicalchildredi0000pear/page/n5/mode/2up Coward-Gibbs, Matt (Ed.). (2020). Death, Culture and Leisure: Playing Dead. Emerald Publishing. https://www.amazon.com/Death-Culture-Leisure-Playing-Emerald/dp/1839090383 Tucker, Jim B., M.D. Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Memories of Previous Lives. St. Martins Press. https://www.amazon.com/Life-Before-Childrens-Memories-Previous/dp/031237674X Plummer, Deborah. (2001). Helping Children to Build Self-Esteem. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. https://uk.jkp.com/products/helping-children-to-build-selfesteem Petros, Nicholas Paul. (1998). I Will Speak For The Children. Jade Publishing. https://www.amazon.com/Will-Speak-Children-Nicholas-Petros/dp/1570873771 Mendizza, Michael & Pearce, Joseph Chilton. (2003). Magical Parent, Magical Child: The Art of Joyful Parenting. North Atlantic Books. https://archive.org/details/magicalparentmagO000mend Codd, Clara M. (1916). “The Fairies”. Theosophy for Very Little Children. Theosophical Publishing House. https://www.theosophy.world/resource/ebooks/theosophy-very-little-children Waite, A.E. (1910). The Pictorial Key to the Tarot. https://sacred-texts.com/tarot/pkt/index.htm Montessori, Maria. (2014). The Absorbent Mind. Sublime Books. https://montessori150.org/maria-montessori/montessori-books/absorbent-mind ____________ The Secret Kindergarten is live every Saturday 2.00pm-3.00pm Eastern Time on Revolution Radio (Studio A): https://www.revolution.radio/. https://thesecretkindergarten.com/

    47 min
  7. Police Play

    11/09/2024

    Police Play

    The future leaders of the free world are not getting the bond that they require, from parents, as young children. They then end up in the educational institutions, anchor-less and defiant, looking for a place for themselves to fit in. They know that conforming to the classroom indoctrination system is wrong, yet they don't know who they are or where they belong. They don't have a better option in mind. They need this system to feed off, because of their lack of familial bonding. They become the bullies and eventually the criminal, the police, the politician. Ultimately, the rebellious and abandoned young, become enforcers of the slave-system because the system made them direct their rebellious nature against themselves. References: Shalaby, Carla. (2017). Troublemakers: Lessons in Freedom From Young Children at School. The New Press. https://www.amazon.com/Troublemakers-Lessons-Freedom-Children-School/dp/1620972360 ______________ The Secret Kindergarten is live every Saturday 2.00pm-3.00pm Eastern Time on Revolution Radio (Studio A): https://www.revolution.radio/. https://thesecretkindergarten.com/

    49 min
  8. Fairy Tale Food for the Soul

    11/02/2024

    Fairy Tale Food for the Soul

    Continuing to clarify the importance of Fairy Tales, we explore the genealogy of Fairy Tales. Does the origin matter? We discover disputes in the discourse of researchers. As we explore we can reel it back in and recognise that Fairy Tales are deeply profound acts of genius. And whether they are old, ancient, re-written, orally re-counted, Christianised or bastardised... or both(!), they are collections of symbols. The symbolic collections require the knowledge and intuition of the people to understand and decode them. Then, we get to understand and preserve the importance of the messages therein. We get to appreciate the heart, soul, values and efforts of the authors of these tales. They knew the power of the fairy tale and they were driven to encode universal truths into them. They strived to create such powerful art so the story and symbolism would remain eternal just like the laws that are encoded in them. References: Bly, Robert. (2018). More Than True: The Wisdom of Fairy Tales. Henry Holt & Company. https://www.amazon.com/More-Than-True-Wisdom-Fairy/dp/1250158192 Vikernes, Varg & Cachet, Marie. (2017). Paganism Explained Part 1: Thrymskvida. Marie Cachet. https://www.burzum.org/eng/library/paganism_explained_01_thrymskvida.shtml de Blécourt, Willem. (2012). Tales of Magic, tales in print: On the genealogy of fairy tales and the Brothers Grimm. Manchester University Press. https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Magic-Print-Genealogy-Brothers/dp/0719083796 Undine Weltsch and Jens Grünewald, The spiritual Message of German Fairy Tales: http://www.fairytales.pushpak.de/ www.thesecretkindergarten.com

    48 min
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The Secret Kindergarten is here to support parents of young children. In this channel you will find the podcast for 'Grown-ups',  parents and carers of young children. This show has been created to encourage and support families, friends and communities of young children so we all can be our own "early childhood educators". The Secret Kindergarten is created and hosted by Gino Volante, an ex-early childhood education teacher. Gino wants to see young children bonded with caring adults in the right way. This will affirm their connection with Nature, which will naturally push back against the indoctrination agendas and create a future of freedom for humanity. https://thesecretkindergarten.com/ The Secret Kindergarten has also a podcast for Young Children (roughly aged 2.5 to 7), with fun and enjoyable content, free of indoctrination and sinister agendas. The children's show is thought provoking and encourages connecting with our young.  Check it out on https://thesecretkindergarten.com/ or on the podcast platform where you are now!

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