Parenting
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A Child Is Born: A Natural Guide to Pregnancy, Birth & Early Childhood
USD $22.00 Add to cartToday’s prospective parents are confronted by a huge selection of guidebooks on pregnancy, birth, and early childhood, and many of them offer sensible advice and sound information that can help mothers and fathers. Nonetheless, Dr zur Linden’s long-established (read more)
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A Real Boy
USD $17.50 Add to cartA Real Boy is a powerfully inspiring story, made all the more so, in my opinion, by the fact that so much that Christina Adams id for her son echoes so much of what Waldorf education has been (read more)
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A Second Classroom: Parent-Teacher Relationships in a Waldorf School
USD $17.50 Add to cartWhat does a healthy, successful school look like? Is it all about measurable outcomes, test scores, and pass/fail grades set by the government? Can learning be quantified in short-term measurements or does real learning take years to manifest in (read more)
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A Waldorf Guide to Children’s Health, Fifth Edition
USD $19.95 Add to cartThis acclaimed guide to children's physical, psychological, and spiritual development is now available in a fifth revised edition with a new, budget-friendly price! Combining up-to-date medical advice with issues of development and education, this is a definitive guide for parents. (read more)
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Adventures in Parenting
USD $16.00 Add to cartAdventures in Parenting is such a lovely book. It is like having a wise grandmother at hand, one who answers so many of the perplexing questions that young parents find themselves puzzling over as they raise their children.
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An A-Z Collection of Behaviour Tales
USD $28.00 Read moreGoodness, I sure wish I had had this book when my children were small! As a young Waldorf Mom, I wanted to know how to help my son learn to be more patient or more grateful. I heard about "healing (read more)
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Think Fast: The ADD Experience
USD $12.95 Add to cartPresents a selection of writings, dialogues, anecdotes, experiences, and personal advice on Attention Deficit Disorder that address such topics as medication and therapeutic options, the problems of women and children with ADD, and more.
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At the Source: The Incarnation of the Child and the Development of a Modern Pedagogy
USD $16.00 Add to cartHarlan Gilbert has written a highly readable, interesting and thorough book that will guide parents and teachers toward a deeper and more practical understanding of children, their developmental stages and how to create a pedagogy meets children where they are.
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Baking Bread with Children
USD $29.95 Add to cartWith a little know-how, anyone can transform a few basic ingredients into a delicious, sustaining loaf of bread. Baking Bread with Children has everything you need to share the magic of baking with children of all ages. The (read more)
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Becoming a Family: The First Three Years
USD $24.95 Add to cartRaising children is a lifelong journey and is never what you imagine it to be. Becoming a Family explores the first three intense and joyful years of the family journey. This is also a profound personal journey: Parents (read more)
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Helping Children Form Healthy Attachments: Building the Foundation for Strong Lifelong Relationships
USD $13.95 Add to cartSafety, feeling at home, trust, self-confidence, creativity, and comfort in exploring the world, are things all children should have. From an early age, children form attachments that become the foundation of their future relationships. Strong bonds with their world (parents, (read more)
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Childhood: A Study of the Growing Child
USD $14.95 Add to cartCaroline von Heydebrand was one of the most beloved teachers at the original Waldorf School in Stuttgart, someone Rudolf Steiner looked to as a guiding light for the children. Childhood is the fruit of her twenty years (read more)
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Children and Their Temperaments
USD $15.95 Add to cartOne of the best and most accessible resources on the subject of the four temperaments and children. Anschütz gives us a guide to children's different temperaments and their role in child character, health and personality development. She illustrates her (read more)
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Children with Special Needs
USD $14.95 Add to cartThis is the best "first book" on curative education we have seen, and we are genuinely glad to be able to offer it to you. This is a concise and fully illustrated introduction to Rudolf Steiner's ideas on the education (read more)
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Clear the Clutter
USD $14.95 Add to cartThis is the most unified course on clearing clutter that I have seen - and the only one that creates a setting for conscious self-development as you go. I strongly recommend reading it and working with it -- the outcomes (read more)
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Confessions of a Waldorf Parent – OUT OF PRINT
USD $5.50 Read moreIt's hard to know which is better about this little booklet - the laughter it produces or the warm I've-been-there-too recalling of the developmental stages of "Waldorf Parenthood." You can follow the author (between your outbursts of laughter) as (read more)
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Creating a Home for Body, Soul, and Spirit: A New Approach to Childcare
USD $25.00 Add to cartCreating a Home for Body, Soul, and Spirit answers with beauty and love the needs of children everywhere, and conveys a joyous hope to all adults how care for those children.
Because she took seriously (read more)
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Developmental Insights
USD $24.00 Add to cartA wonderful compilation of articles and reports coming out of the First International Conference for Doctors and Teachers, held in Stuttgart, Germany, and sponsored by the Medical Section of the Goetheanum. Topics covered include
- the role of the (read more)
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Developmental Signatures
USD $20.00 Add to cartDevelopmental Signatures is the result of studies commissioned by the the German Association of Waldorf Schools (Bund) and carried out by a team of teachers, doctors, parents, and scholars. You'll find the developmental stages of Waldorf education as (read more)
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Difficult Children: There Is No Such Thing
USD $18.00 Read moreKöhler's unceasingly heart-filled account appears at a time when, on the one hand, we face rising numbers of children whose classroom behavior classifies them as "educationally difficult," and on the other hand seem to find ourselves painted into a (read more)
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Festivals, Family, and Food
USD $22.00 Add to cartFestivals, Family and Food has become a classic of its kind. It is not only a guide to celebrating festivals, but an inspiration for celebrating life itself. Packed with ideas for crafts, games and delicious food, this book stands as (read more)
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Free to Learn
USD $24.00 Add to cartThis is the most thorough, interesting and inspiring introduction to the Waldorf kindergarten to yet appear in print. The author is to be congratulated indeed! In the Steiner/Waldorf kindergarten, the teachers' approach stems from a belief that children's (read more)
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From the Heart through the Hands
USD $23.95 Add to cartCover May Vary This book is for people who like to touch and be touched, and for those who long to be touched more. It is for those who feel comfortable communicating through their hands and for those (read more)
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Goodbye, Mr. Muffin: Hardcover
USD $17.95 Read moreThis sweetly beautiful book is for ages three and up. It tells the touching story about the death of a much-loved pet. Growing old, death rites, the question of the afterlife, all are handled with warmth and gentle humor. The (read more)
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Free, Equal, and Mutual: Rebalancing Society for the Common Good
USD $29.00 Add to cartWith resurgent nationalism, global warming, rising inequality and blowback from war, our market dominated society is in meltdown. However Rudolf Steiner’s free, equal, and mutual vision offers a timely alternative for rebalancing society. This pushes back “the market” from (read more)
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Healing Stories for Challenging Behaviour
USD $30.00 Add to cartSusan Perrow has developed the art of pedagogical stories to a luminescent degree. In her beautiful book she offers dozens of stories, some her own, some traditional and retold by her. Each story carries with it the seed of healing (read more)
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Home Away from Home: LifeWays Care for Children and Families
USD $16.95 Add to cartFrom the Lifeways Website: A ground-breaking, yet refreshingly simple and wholesome approach to Steiner-based child care, written by two experts in the field. The LifeWays approach focuses on warm, loving (read more)
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Homemaking and Personal Development
USD $20.00 Add to cartVeronika van Duin has made it her life's work to help others create homes that can contribute to the creation of a healthy society. Her first book, Homemaking as a (read more)
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Homemaking as a Social Art
USD $24.00 Add to cartI longed for a book like this when I was a young mother and wife. I felt so alone in my desire to create a home in which my entire family could thrive. I also felt rather lost and uncertain (read more)
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I Am Different from You
USD $12.00 Add to cartIn many of his lectures to teachers on education, Rudolf Steiner called attention to a significant but often overlooked change in the way children experience themselves and the world that occurs in the middle of childhood, in the ninth or (read more)
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In a Nutshell
USD $18.00 Add to cartWhat an absolutely wonderful book! Nancy Foster has not only given us great explanation of just about everything parents new to Waldorf education ever wonder about, but she has gone on to give some of the best parenting advice ever (read more)
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Joyful Toddlers and Preschoolers
Are you committed to positive, respectful parenting, but frustrated when your child acts out? This book offers practical tools to side-step power struggles and set limits without punishing or yelling. Research-based and clearly written, you'll learn:
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Life is the Curriculum
USD $11.95 Add to cartFrom the Lifeways Website: “Here is a book that reaches out with an inviting hand to walk with you through the gently unfolding landscape of early childhood. It will (read more)
Life Lessons: Reaching Teenagers Through Literature
USD $16.00 Add to cartIt is a beautiful thing the way literature can fire the hearts of teenagers (and the rest of us): the stories transport us into the experiences of others, the way the author conveys them allows us to step into the (read more)
Light Beyond the Darkness
USD $19.95 Read moreI was privileged to be one of the many people who helped Doré give birth to this incredible story. Doré is an amazingly strong person, someone really capable of entering into a new understanding of a very painful event, searching (read more)
Living Passages
USD $21.95 Read moreA ground-breaking resource for creating contemporary rites of passage in the family from birth to adulthood... for parents, grandparents, mentors, counselors, and educators of all faiths.
- Creative ideas for celebrating contemporary rites of passage (read more)
Making a Family Home
USD $20.00 Add to cartMaking a Family Home is a book of real beauty, one both personal and universal. In describing her home and family life, Shannon Honeybloom shows how she made—and how we can make—a house into a real (read more)
More Lifeways
USD $24.00 Add to cartMore Lifeways is parents talking to parents, sharing personal accounts of their life-journeys, their times of rejoicing and times of tears. I always find that first person stories, "How I got through it," can be deeply heartening and (read more)
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Mother Warriors: DISCOUNT BOOK
USD $5.00 Add to cartThe core message that I took away from Mother Warriors is one of balance. Each of these parent's stories has the theme "my child was vaccinated and had an extreme reaction to it; in the end (with (read more)
Helping Children on Their Way
USD $55.00 Read moreTeachers and parents know that each child is a tiny miracle, a complex puzzle needing to be solved. This book is packed with insights from experienced teachers in Waldorf schools describing methods that a teacher can employ to help an (read more)