Product Description
by Cynthia Aldinger (Author)
Exploring the Foundations of Care for Young Children through the Insights of Rudolf Steiner, Founder of Waldorf Education. An engaging, insightful and inspiring book that encourages an "I can do it" attitude in the reader. Filled with clear guidance, pracitcal examples and inspiration from Rudolf Steiner, you will be encouraged to form your own program or adapt your lifestyle. The ponderables at the end of each chapter give practical guidance and help us on a path of self-development. Build a curriculum around the child requires that we become open to nature, our senses become alive; we will be more in the moment, and life will become as joyful for us as it can be for children everywhere. (Janni Nichol, editor of KINDLING Journal for Waldorf Early Childhood UK)
Author Biography
Cynthia Aldinger is the founder and Executive Director of LifeWays North America. Co-author of the book Home Away from Home: LifeWays Care of Children and Families, Cynthia has lectured and presented internationally, directs trainings and seminars across North America, and is an adjunct faculty member at Rudolf Steiner College in California. She served fourteen years on the board of Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America and was a Waldorf Kindergarten teacher for many years after she received her Waldorf teaching certificate at Emerson College in Sussex, England. A mother and grandmother, Cynthia's passion is the preservation of the playful spirit of childhood and helping to create early childhood environments that provide the comfort, security and activities found in a healthy home.
