How do parents provide Pre-K and Kindergarten students with rich, open-ended play and work opportunities at home? We posed this question to Patricia Cornelius, Early Childhood Teacher and Faculty Chair at The Waldorf School of Philadelphia, and she told us about a few, very simple things parents can do to keep their young children learning.
In Waldorf education, early childhood teachers give children a great gift — the time and space to live fully into their imaginations. Fostering children’s imagination and awe allows them to master their will and develop empathy.
Søren Kierkegaard said, “Boredom is the root of all evil.” Indeed, idleness has been looked down upon for centuries. Recent studies on the matter have brought much new information to light, but for many of us, the long-standing notion that a bored person needs an “activity” can lead to a reactionary approach if our child […]