by Joan Almon   Deciding which fairy tales are appropriate for which age group is a problem that faces every kindergarten teacher as well as every parent who wants to offer fairy tales to children. Over the years, with the experience of actually telling the tales to children, one develops a “sense” for this, but in the beginning some guidelines may be of help. Among...

published:  March 2005   My mother once wondered how my sister and I turned out the way we did. She fondly (I think) refers to us as witches. Our children don’t watch television or work with computers. At least not yet. They don’t eat junk (or hardly do). We don’t burden them prematurely with intellectual concepts. We put them in a Steiner school because we want them...

Author: Sarah Boseley, health editor Date published: Tuesday 9 October 2012   Review of studies raises concerns over screen time, while the department of health highlights instead the dangers of inactivity   By the age of seven, a child born today in the UK will have spent an entire year of 24 hours a day looking at TV, computer and video game screens. Photograph: Peter...

by Caroline von Heydebrand   A LITTLE girl, still quite young, often makes the following experiment: going upstairs, she stops suddenly on one of the steps, shuts her eyes, and stands quite still. She thinks: “The world in which we live is only a dream. There is another ‘real’ world, a world quite different from my present surroundings. This other world...

Author: Joan Almon AWSNA lecture given at the AWSNA Teachers’ Conference, Kimberton Waldorf School, Date published: Sunday, June 23, 2002 Age group: 4-6 In listening to these various living pictures on kindergarten children from the audience, I was struck again by the many children I’ve worked with. Last October I quietly celebrated 30th years of working with young children....

Author: Anne Tandree An introduction to the temperaments … and how this knowledge can aid a parent or teacher. Fashioning the temperament through storytelling so that it becomes a useful tool. Economy in teaching Balancing my attention between the individual children and the whole class was one  of the first challenges that I met in my first teaching experience....