Parents and grandparents face new and increasing challenges in their roles as children's caregivers. This book explores how both school and home together can form a supporting, cooperative circle which holds children safe and warm in the world.
Poplawski describes the developmental stages of children and explains the concepts behind many Steiner-Waldorf educational practices.
This will be a useful and thought-provoking book for anyone working with or caring for children.
Topics include:
Taming the Media Monster
The Power of Play
Toys Are Not Us: Escaping from the Maw of Consumerism
Children and Sports - Finding a Balance
Etheric? Astral? Ego? An Esoteric View of the Human Being and Its Value in the Education of the Child
Paradise Lost: The Nine-Year Change
The Four Temperaments
Watching Your Temper(ament)