By ANNIE MURPHY PAUL   When a minaret dating from the twelfth century was toppled in the fighting between rebels and government forces in Aleppo, Syria, we recognized that more than a building had been lost. The destruction of irreplaceable artifacts—like the massive Buddha statues dynamited in the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan in 2001 and the ancient texts burned and looted...

by Chris Mercogliano and Kim Debus Journal of Family Life, Volume 5, No.1, 1999 Source: http://www.appliedmeditation.org/The_Heart/articles_joseph_chilton_pearce.shtml     For nearly half a century Joseph Chilton Pearce has been probing the mysteries of the human mind. Author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg, Magical Child, Magical...

By Sue Hubbard, M.D | The Kid’s Doctor February 12, 2013|     While bullying has always been a problem encountered during childhood and adolescence, we all know it’s on the rise. When a child is intentionally and repeatedly mean to another child, the cycle begins. Bullying occurs on the playground, at lunch in the cafeteria, in locker rooms, even over the...

By Kim John Payne M.Ed     Hearing of the horror of genocide from recent history, such as that in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, we often feel so powerless, horrified, and disturbed.  Can we do something about this?  Yes, and it begins at our dinner table at home, in our hallways and playgrounds at school.  When ‘joking around’ crosses the line into put downs...

Author: Denise Witmer Date published: Unknown Contact details: Currently, you can contact Denise at Twitter or on her Facebook Page. Source: http://parentingteens.about.com/od/bullying/a/bullying4.htm   Five Steps to Take if Your Child is Being Bullied If your child comes to you because a bully is bothering him, you need to pay close attention to the problem. The worst thing...

In surprising studies, researchers find benefits to setting keyboards aside. Published on March 14, 2013 by William R. Klemm, D.V.M, Ph.D.     Have you ever tried to read your physician’s prescriptions? Children increasingly print their writing because they don’t know cursive or theirs is simply unreadable. I have a middle-school grandson who has trouble reading his...

Author: Eileen Hutchins Date published: Unknown Contact details: Contact tab available on Waldorf library site From the archives of the Rudolf Steiner Library, Ghent, NY. This article was published in Child and Man, Rudolf Steiner School Assn., NY. Vol.21, No. 1, Summer 1960   Teaching the first letters to children of six or seven years old is a happy experience. Even those...

by Kim John Payne   Parents across the country know something is wrong. All the hovering, anxiety, medicating, and overscheduling is giving voice to that parental instinct that knows when our kids and family life are in trouble. And it’s true, our kids are in crisis, victims of an undeclared war on childhood, drowning in a sensory tsunami, and because we love them so much,...

Author: Thomas Stockli, Interview of Henning Kohler AWSNA Publications Originally published in Das Goetheanum – Wochenschrift für Anthroposophia No. 11, March 11 , 2001 Translated from German by J. Collis Edited by Theresa Muller, for brevity   An Interview with Henning Köhler, therapist, conducted by Thomas Stockli at Wolfschlugen near Stuttgart, Germany, on February 7,...

Author: Susan R. Johnson, M.D., F.A.A.P Contact details: (916) 638–8758 www.youandyourchildshealth.org Source: www.youandyourchildshealth.org/articles/healing-our-children.html There is an epidemic in our society. More and more children are being assigned to more and more labels. Labels such as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD),...