52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 30 (This is part of a weekly serial started on Michaelmas 2023. To see the other entries, please see the post linked HERE and scroll down to the bottom for individual links) If anything be said to which we must reply, we must be careful to consider the speaker's opinion, feeling, … Continue reading Differing Opinions
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 29 (This is part of a weekly serial started on Michaelmas 2023. To see the other entries, please see the post linked HERE and scroll down to the bottom for individual links) Do you know where you'll be in five years time? Some of us have plans we hope to fulfill, … Continue reading In Five Years Time
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 28 (This is part of a weekly serial started on Michaelmas 2023. To see the other entries, please see the post linked HERE and scroll down to the bottom for individual links) The question to be asked is not: what does an individual need to know and be capable of doing … Continue reading Developing Potential
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 27 (This is part of a weekly serial started on Michaelmas 2023. To see the other entries, please see the post linked HERE and scroll down to the bottom for individual links) We were not able to form a school based upon a particular worldview at the Waldorf School. Instead from … Continue reading Is Waldorf Religious?
Building independence in the kitchen... My children have been in the kitchen with me since birth. Literally. Three meals a day, plus snacks, it is rare I'm in our tiny kitchen alone, even with teens! By age six they were making their own breakfasts and from there their independence grew and grew. In my experience, … Continue reading Independence in the Kitchen
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 26 (This is part of a weekly serial started on Michaelmas 2023. To see the other entries, please see the post linked HERE and scroll down to the bottom for individual links) The effect of a fairy tale on our soul is spontaneous, elementary, and therefore remains unconscious. When we try … Continue reading The Effect of a Fairy Tale
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 25 (This is part of a weekly serial started on Michaelmas 2023. To see the other entries, please see the post linked HERE and scroll down to the bottom for individual links) An Example of How not to Teach PaintingDr. Steiner: “A Mr. X has appeared in town X. He is … Continue reading How Not To Teach Painting
Healthy consumption of news and current events is a large topic of discussion in our home. There is a vast amount of information available to us today. Much of it conflicting, much of it sensationalized, much of it, in the greater scheme of things, totally irrelevant. In Canada our major news outlets are highly subsidized … Continue reading Tackling Current Events
We often think of accommodations in education for the strugglers, those who are "behind", those who need something more to keep up. But what about those who excel? They too need accommodations. Just like the "strugglers", they will disengage and disconnect from an activity if it isn't meeting their needs. Their boredom could echo those … Continue reading Accommodations
52 Weeks of Steiner – Week 24 (This is part of a weekly serial started on Michaelmas 2023. To see the other entries, please see the post linked HERE and scroll down to the bottom for individual links) It was asked whether children should be broken of left-handedness. Dr. Steiner: “As a rule, yes. Left-handed children, while … Continue reading Left-handedness
