Category: Regenerative Education
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How to Help Your Child Succeed in Math: 5 Practical Tips
In this post, we talk about how to help your child succeed in math with five practical tips. Many parents lament teaching math to their child because, let’s face it, it’s hard. Math is where you either get it or you don’t. It’s not like history, geography, or language arts, where there’s more nuance and…
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How to Bring “Waldorf” Into Homeschooling
In today’s post, we’re gonna be talking about how to bring Waldorf into homeschooling. Let’s start by saying true Waldorf arises out of a tradition called Anthroposophy. This term means “the wisdom of the human being.” It combines Greek “anthropos,” meaning “human,” with “sofia,” meaning “wisdom.” In other words, true Waldorf Education arises out of…
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The Essential Homeschool Curriculum
I often hear parents asking, “What is the essential homeschool curriculum to give my child?” Homeschoolers question the traditional curriculum and busywork of a mainstream school – public, private, and even Waldorf – and ask, what is really necessary here? It’s a fair question. After all, when I was a middle schooler playing drum set and…
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Preparing for Michaelmas
Michaelmas approaches – September 29. This is arguably the most important festival in the Waldorf school year as it symbolizes the important human quality of courage. In this post we will discuss the symbolism and importance of this holiday as well as how we go about preparing for Michaelmas. First, let’s consider what’s happening in…
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Holistic Education: The Human Embedded in the 4 Kingdoms of Nature
Last week, we introduced the concept of a regenerative education for children and youth. In this post, we are going to elaborate some details about that. A regenerative education is by nature a holistic education since regeneration comes from a recognition of the wholeness we are striving to regenerate. Such an approach cannot be more…