This article (by Susan Wyatt / Kings) aught to make you feel better the next time your 6 year old comes in with grimy fingernails and dirt all over his face PLAYING IN THE DIRT MAY MAKE YOU SMARTER For more info on Waldorf Education, please visit my Waldorf page. Discovering Waldorf is a weeklyIf you want to read more…click here
Discovering Waldorf :: Can Play Get Your Child into University?
March 21, 2013 By 1 Comment
“Parents, educators, psychologists, neuroscientists, and politicians generally fall into one of two camps when it comes to preparing very young children for school: play-based or skills-based. These two kinds of curricula are often pitted against one another as a zero-sum game: If you want to protect your daughter’s childhood, so the argument goes, choose aIf you want to read more…click here
The Gift of Unscheduled Time
March 5, 2013 By 5 Comments
It is amazing what happens when we allow our children, regular, free and unscheduled time… time to ‘just be’. We live in an over-scheduled era and we have a tendency to over-schedule our children’s lives too… soccer, scouts, art classes, piano lessons, playdates and… the list goes on forever. We mean well, of course. WeIf you want to read more…click here
Discovering Waldorf :: Propositions of Play
February 21, 2013 By Leave a Comment
I know we talk about the importance of play a lot here on Discovering Waldorf and here it is again. I thought this article had a very interesting take on the benefits of play throughout the ages. I particularly loved these two sentences … “Play, then, is about process, not product. It has no goalIf you want to read more…click here
