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Midwinter
A Time of Quiet and Inner Reflection.
The Nelson study group invites you to our St. John’s Festival on Saturday the 27th of June at 92 Totara View Road , Wakefield.
The Theme is:
St. John’s Festival and the working of the Archangel Uriel in our time.
We will have an artistic activity as well.
We will meet at 4pm and will starting with the Festival talk.
Afterwards shared supper.
Please, let me know if you are coming. I have to prepare for the artistic activity.
For the Nelson group,
Best wishes,
Gundula McKibben
Ph: 03 541 9337
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"Where else on earth is practicing love and commitment an integral part of the educational plan? Where else does a child get to see a teacher show up every day for eight years for them?"
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"Teaching children the right thing at the right time is essential for lifelong learning...Waldorf educators believe it is better to develop a child’s imagination and listening skills by having her listen to oral storytelling of a fairy tales, which she can then act out later with friends in imaginative play."
Mainstream educators have reverse engineered academic instruction to Kindergarten. There is an alternative. Nurture your child's natural curiosity and reclaim their childhood. Choose Waldorf Education.
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Lovely new video about Waldorf Education by Pasadena Waldorf School! So affirming and well-presented! https://vimeo.com/130343245
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When Tilda Swinton’s twins reached 14, she wanted them to continue their Steiner schooling without the stress of tests. So two years ago she helped found a new...
theguardian.com|By the Guardian
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Intellect and Feelings
Someone who thinks in a materialistic way easily believes one can only arrive at understanding through abstract concepts. It takes great effort for him to come to the insight that the other soul faculties are just as necessary to understand the world, as is the intellect. It is not just meant metaphorically when it is said that one can understand just as well with the feelings, the heart or with a sense of becoming aware of something – as it were sensing it – as with the intellect. Intellectual understanding is only one means to the things of this world to understand.
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Intellect and Feelings
Someone who thinks in a materialistic way easily believes one can only arrive at understanding through abstract concepts. It takes great effort for him to come to the insight that the other soul faculties are just as necessary to understand the world, as is the intellect. It is not just meant metaphorically when it is said that one can understand just as well with the feelings, the heart or with a sense of becoming aware of something – as it were sensing it – as with the intellect. Intellectual understanding is only one means to the things of this world to understand.
Source (English): Rudolf Steiner – GA 34 – The Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy – 1907
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Delaying the school starting age can improve children’s grasp of reading at the end of primary education, according to research.
telegraph.co.uk
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Innovative Kids!!
Innovative Kids!!
Rudolf Steiner Education and The Best of Waldorf Art shared a link.
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The Importance of Warmth
Written by Susan Johnson M.D.
As a pediatrician, 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 was simple. I was also a parent that had her 2 year-old child playing outside in the rain wearing only a diaper. I actually thought he was okay because his skin felt warm!
Warmth is probably one of the greatest gifts we can give our children. Not only the warmth of our love but also keeping their physical body warm. Children are developing their bodies especially during the first 7 years of their lives. An infant and a young child will always feel warm unless they are on the verge of hypothermia because they have an accelerated metabolic rate. If we don't provide them with the layers of cotton, silk, and wool to insulate their bodies, then they must use some of their potential "growth" energy to heat their bodies.
This same energy would be better utilized in further developing their brain, heart, liver, lungs etc. In addition, being cold decreases immunity. We are all more susceptible to the germs and viruses that are always around us when we are wet and cold. When our body has to expend extra energy to keep warm then less energy is available to "fight" off infections.
So the question becomes, how do we get our children to wear jackets? One can develop the habit of always having children put on a hat and coat when they go outside during cool weather. One can also try telling children that they will actually run faster and have much more energy to play if they wear a coat. If they don't wear a coat then their body has to expend a lot of energy just warming them up, and they will have less energy to build muscles and less energy to play.
Finally, the type of clothing our children wear also makes a big difference. Polyester pajamas don't breathe and children will often wake up sweating. Even polyester jackets will not insulate a child from the cold as well as layers of cotton, silk, or wool. When children sweat while wearing polyester that sweat is trapped against their body and they eventually become chilled.
So why do children rarely complain that they are cold? Children often are not connected with their body before the age of 7 to even acknowledge or communicate that they are cold. They live in the moment and are so excited and stimulated by all that they see that they don't have the capacity to sense the coldness of their body. This is why children often will play in a swimming pool or ocean until they are literally "blue" denying that they are cold or that they need to come out of the water. So as parents, we have to help our children develop their sense of warmth. By helping them develop this sense of warmth, we are actually strengthening their immunity and laying the foundation for a healthy body and healthy organs in their adult life.
YouandYourChildsHealth.org is a library of health information about raising children and creating a healthier family life. This Living Book also contains personal stories about the joys and triumphs, as well as the struggles and challenges, we face as parents. It is made freely available as a public service.
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anne perry /editor. annonaeo@gmail.com
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