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Children need to enjoy the joy of discovery that learning something new gives them, without the pressure of having to perfect it for a test coming up in two weeks...

Today as parents we want our children to be "all knowing" at a very young age. I often wonder where we parents got the idea that they needed this kind of intellectual support from us. So what really is our role ? As parents ? As teachers ?...

The world would not progress by mere intellect in our head without the ability to translate it into something in our hands...

Celebrating festivals carries deeper hidden messages that weave a thread across all geographies...

Summer Solstice - Here’s a little puppet story poem we came up with today to celebrate the Indian style summer solstice on June 21. ...

Waldorf is much more in the details . Not in the details of what the child is doing but in the process that the teacher or the parent adopts. ...

All grains are seeds and seeds bear the forces of birth, death and rebirth and as such the forces of LIFE...

Difficult for us to manage as parents, but ‘boredom’ is what the children need most. They will figure out a ton of things to do with simple things they find around the house and garden...

Hand embroidery has been around since 30,000BC and is a gift from the spiritual world...

Waldorf education helps the child incarnate all the way from his head to the tips of his/her fingers and toes...

It is one of the oldest surviving crafts in the world tracing back to more than 20000 years BC, and in the animal world it dates back even further. The spectacular work of a spiders web or a weaver bird’s nest are all a testament...

Our current technology driven life take us far from the natural world. Natural textures and fibres which were freely available now cost a lot. Felting dates back quite a while in history and was used to make shelters initially...

Rudolf Steiner often described dolls that children should play with. Sometimes we get carried away with buying or making toys for our little ones...

29th September, festival of Michaelmas. Rudolf Steiner says we should have a parallel in India too around the same time of year...

Rudolf Steiner said “Headwork alone, which only occupies the intellect, does not reach the Spirit” Handwork through the grades follows a beautiful progression...

In my next series of handwork related articles, we move from kindergarten handwork to Grade 1 readiness. For most children in Waldorf schools Grade 1...

“From Play, through Beauty, to Work - This is a golden path for education.” - R.Steiner. Such a profound statement by Rudolf Steiner...

This is the first in my series of handwork related posts. Over the months of September and October my plan is to write different posts...

The stars once spoke to man. It is world destiny that they are silent now, but in their silence there grows and ripens what man speaks to the stars - Rudolf Steiner...

“Have you tried the Paleo diet yet ?”
“You have diabetes, you should try intermittent fasting”
“For me the Keto diet worked wonders”...

Drawing is a wonderful phase in early childhood and interpretation of the drawing can be such a beautiful process. Steiner believes that the progression...

“The realm of colour cannot be conquered by intellect; it must be grasped through feeling. Steiner says colour is the soul of nature and the...

“The child must work out of his or her own will, not by following commands. Thus, we can bring children to the point where they will carve and make...

“I don’t like telling my child fairy tales, because they reflect an unjust world where women need a Prince Charming to rescue them is often a reaction...