POSTED ON MARCH 8, 2013 BY KYCE on her delightful blog – worth checking out: https://oldrecipe.wordpress.com/     From the blog: Old Recipe for a New World https://oldrecipe.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/you-know-youre-really-into-waldorf-when/   A lighthearted look at how far we can go – not that I, or anyone I know has, ahem.   You cut out screen time for your...

by Renate Long-Breipohl 2008 Source: http://www.waldorflibrary.org/images/stories/articles/RB13_2renate.pdf   Recently while observing young children in a childcare situation, I watched one little boy around the age of two who was totally immersed in moving blocks into various positions. He stayed absorbed in his activity without looking up or saying a word. Was he thinking?...

By Joan Almon   “The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health.” – Ashley Montagu   Over thirty years of working with children, families, and teachers in Waldorf kindergartens all over the world, I have observed one overwhelming similarity: creative play is a central activity in the lives of healthy young children. It helps children weave...

Author: Helle Heckmann Source:http://www.iaswece.org/waldorf_education/articles_and_resources/articles_and_resources.aspx   How do we bring to the child childhood’s gifts of total acceptance, innocence, faith, and trust? For me, it has always been through life in Nature, its constant changes and transformations, never the same and yet recognizable. For me, the fact of being...

Author: Martin Tittman Date published: Unknown Contact details: Contact tab available on Waldorf library site Source: http://www.waldorflibrary.org/articles/38-the-questions-of-a-small-child Published in Education as an Art Vol. 25,# 2 Winter, 1965-66 Translated by Clara von Woedtke   Our century in its concern for “the child” has even directed its thought to an...

Author: Dr. Helmut von Kügelgen Source: http://www.waldorflibrary.org/articles/1180-the-laws-of-childhood   Childhood is governed by sublime laws, and demands humanity and selflessness from the adult world. For this reason, the small child poses a great challenge to our intellectual modern consciousness. Should the realm of childhood be protected from the “experts,”...

by Susan Johnson M.D. Source: http://www.waldorflibrary.org/articles/613-the-importance-of-warmth     As a paediatrician, I actually was taught that you could tell if children were warm enough by touching their skin. If they felt warm then they were wearing enough clothes, and if they felt cool or their skin was mottled (bluish-pink), then they needed more clothes. It...

Written by Joan Almon and Edward Miller Date published: Unknown Contact details: Contact tab available on Waldorf library site A Research-Based Case for More Play and Less Pressure, Alliance for Childhood, November 2011   While early formal instruction may appear to show good test results at first, in the long term,in follow-up studies, such children have had no advantage....

Written by  Esther Boylan Wolfson Source: http://www.wholefamily.com/parent-center/child-development/that-which-is-asleep-will-awaken-rudolph-steiner-on-babies Date: August 2014   Do you feel that in today’s world, children are being pushed to develop quickly and not enough time is spent on enjoying the moment and allowing children to progress at their own pace? Are...

Author: Susan R. Johnson, M.D., F.A.A.P Contact details: (916) 638–8758 www.youandyourchildshealth.org Source:http://www.youandyourchildshealth.org/youandyourchildshealth/articles/teaching%20our%20children.html   A Developmental Approach Looking at the Relationship of Children’s Foundational Neurological Pathways to their Higher Capacities for Learning The Development...