Cradle of a Healthy Life - Softcover

Steegmans, Dr. Johanna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936849046 ISBN 13: 9781936849048

Publisher: Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America, 2012

Synopsis

Everything the children experience in [early childhood] literally forms their physical being—as well as their social and psychical being—for the rest of life. Our intention and responsibility as educators is to connect what the children have brought from the past with lawful activities to form and guide their future. —From Nancy Blanning’s summary of Dr. Karnow’s 2009 WECAN conference lectures, “Developing the Eyes to See” Our task as Waldorf educators today is to help children take hold of their bodies in a way that will permit them to serve as instruments of the free individuality. In this we can work with the anthroposophic physician, who seeks to guide what has become diseased or malformed back into the stream of healthy development, by actively engaging with Rudolf Steiner’s picture of the human being in body, soul, and spirit. This volume collects the valuable contributions of two medical doctors to recent WECAN conferences on the east and west coasts. The fundamental importance of early childhood for the health of the individual throughout life is presented with deep and compassionate understanding from the physician’s perspective. Key developmental stages and milestones are described afresh, and a path indicated that can help caregivers to “read” in the physiology of the child what he or she needs for growth into a free adult.

About this title

About the Author:

Johanna Steegmans, MD, is an anthroposophical medical doctor with a special interest in early childhood development. She is active in Waldorf early childhood teacher training at the Sound Circle Center in Seattle, WA, and lectures and offers courses throughout North America and internationally. Gerald Karnow, MD, works as a physician within the Rudolf Steiner Fellowship Community, an intergenerational center for the care of the elderly, in Chestnut Ridge, New York. He also serves as school doctor at Green Meadow Waldorf School and works directly with the students of the Otto Specht School.

About this edition

• Publisher: Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1936849046
• ISBN 13: 9781936849048
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 162