Article: One Step at a Time, Waldorf Homeschooling

One Step at a Time
One of the things that often strikes me in the course of consulting with clients or reading through what people say on my discussion forum (or my old yahoo group) is how by making just a few simple changes to their family life, profound differences have been felt. By simply slowing down, ignoring popular admonitions to sign ones children up for every enrichment class and group activity available and just being at home, parents constantly tell me that major changes have occurred in their family. They find that they are more peaceful and less stressed; that the children start to play more and argue less; and that they find that life is generally more peaceful.

So my advice to people new to Waldorf, to those who e-mail me, awed at the beauty and profound appeal of Waldorf education and its implications for parenting is: take it easy and just go one step at a time. Waldorf is so tremendously different from accepted and popular ideas about how children learn - what children are - that when someone finds Waldorf and suddenly feel validated by what might have been lurking in her heart for some time, there is a tendency to try to "do it all." Suddenly the house needs to be redecorated and the walls lazured in pale shades of pink and yellow; all the plastic monstrosities have to be thrown out; the TV and video are no longer welcome; and a myriad of other changes seem to all need to be done at once.



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