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    You Are Your Child's First Teacher: Encouraging Your Child's Natural Development from Birth to Age Six, Third Edition
    You Are Your Child's First Teacher: Encouraging Your Child's Natural Development from Birth to Age Six, Third Edition
    You Are Your Child's First Teacher: Encouraging Your Child's Natural Development from Birth to Age Six, Third Edition
    Audiobook10 hours

    You Are Your Child's First Teacher: Encouraging Your Child's Natural Development from Birth to Age Six, Third Edition

    Written by Rahima Baldwin Dancy

    Narrated by Amanda Ronconi

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    About this audiobook

    The first book in America to popularize the insights of Rudolf Steiner, founder of the Waldorf schools, regarding the developmental needs of young children, this revised and updated edition offers new ways for parents and educators to enrich the lives of children from birth to age six.

    Today's society often pressures us into overstimulating young children with flashcards, workbooks, videos, and electronic gadgets in a well-meaning attempt to give them a head start. But children are not little adults-they learn and grow in radically different ways at different ages, and what we do to help could actually hurt instead.

    Some of the most important learning years happen before your child reaches school. In You Are Your Child's First Teacher, respected Waldorf educator Rahima Baldwin Dancy explains the different stages of learning that children go through from birth to age six, giving you the wisdom and understanding to enrich your child's natural development in the right way at the right time.

    A trusted classic for over twenty years, this newly revised edition contains updated resources and additional information on discipline, early childhood programs, toilet training, using home life as curriculum, and more. From language and cognitive development to appropriate toys and nourishing your child's artistic abilities, Dancy speaks up for a rational approach to child-rearing, one that helps children be children while we fulfill our important role as parents and first teachers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateNov 6, 2018
    ISBN9781977388292
    You Are Your Child's First Teacher: Encouraging Your Child's Natural Development from Birth to Age Six, Third Edition

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    • 5/5
      This book is a treasure box that helps you with giving your child the best and happiest childhood possible. Thank you!
    • 3/5
      This book had a lot of interesting theories. Waldorf is maddening though - it seems like a method/school of thought that has such potential, and that I would love to explore further, yet it is probably easier to find books on ancient Greek than on Waldorf philosophy and homeschooling, PARTICULARLY after the age of 6. I'm not sure why, exactly, Waldorf theorists would rather you only buy your books from a few expensive sources, and why there really isn't any material available in the public library, even by interlibrary loan. It is too, too bad. I would really love to learn more about it. I appreciate the seasonality, and the emphasis on crafts, on the connections that we, as people, have to our past, and our heritage, and the world around us. I feel like it DOES make for a more well-rounded person.
    • 5/5
      Absolutely spectacular. Back to basics parenting. I used this book to help me "unlearn" all that we are told in the realm of parenting. Rahima's book helped me tap into my original parenting instincts. I love this book.