Almost every modern culture feels that children need to be disciplined toward becoming awakened to the world around them - here you see an unfolding being, as the teacher said, nurtured through rhythm and rhyme and story. When a child is being a problem to others they don't see them as naughty, but as something more like "out of sorts" and emotionally imbalanced or suffering perhaps physically. They wonder right away about what is bothering the child who is bothering the other children and work with greater nuance through one- on- one discussion, story telling, or letting someone have some time holding a pillow that is a bit heavy or covered in fur or velvet. It it interesting to see Waldorf as it is in different schools ( I saw it in Denmark, Germany, and the USA there in both public and private schools) and it does not have to be so dreamy all the time. They also encourage forceful outdoor play including running and shouting and to use heavy pieces of wood and rocks for building, real knives to help prepare real actually healthy snack, real shovels for digging outdoors, and real hammers. Boys are also allowed to be boys and also allowed to play with the dolls, but the natural materials inspire a different form of play and so do the teachers' voices. One other lovely facet is that visitors are often invited to come and do actual handcrafts while the children play. You know how children love to meet the janitor, whom they assume is the most important person in the school! LOL. In many ways they are ; )

@@user-qe9yx1nt2x Thank you for your reply. But why "letting someone have some time holding a pillow that is a bit heavy or covered in fur or velvet"?

Contact London Waldorf School of SW London.

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