Author: Betty Staley

Between Form and Freedom has a wealth of helpful insights about teenagers, offering a wise look into the souls of children and adolescents. Betty Staley invites you to explore the vibrant nature of adolescence - the search for the self, the birth of the intellect, the release of feeling, male-female differences and character.

Teenagers’ growth needs are explored in relation to family, friends, the media, education, the arts and love. Issues around stress, depression, eating disorders, drug and alcohol abuse are tackled, clarifying the options.

By Steve Biddulph

Steve Biddulph explains boys’ development from birth to manhood - and what their special needs are…

• The three stages of boyhood, and how to make them go smoothly.
• How boys’ brains are different.
• Testosterone! How it changes behaviour and what to do about it.
• How mothers teach boys about love and life.
• The five essentials that fathers provide - and what to do if you’re a single mum.
• Common diseases of boys, such as ‘kitchen blindness’ and ‘dyslaundria’.
• How to help boys learn a caring attitude to sex.
• Eight major changesschools must make to be good places for boys.
• Sport - encouraging the right values in boys.

By Jeanne Elium & Don Elium

From the authors of Raising A Son and Raising A Daughter the book discusses the dramatic changes and necessary adjustments that children bring to our lives, and the evolution of the family itself.

The Eliums show us the diference between the service-oriented environment of work, where energy is focused on a single goal, and the care-oriented environment at home, where multiple issues need attention.

By Dr Brent Waters & Liz Kennedy

Every Kid gives an overview of the development of five to twelve years old, the nature of family life and the pressures on children and parents. It covers in detail ways of managing children’s behaviour and of understanding and influencing their emotions and relationships. Most of the common as well as the more difficult problems encountered in this age group are explored and strategies and solutions discussed, including how to avoid traps such as arguing and inconsistency.

By Clare Cherry

What do you do when a child is disruptive and uncooperative? Please Don’t Sit on the Kids examines the traditional idea that discipline equals punishment. In place of punitive techniques, Clare Cherry offers an approach called “nondiscipline discipline” and alternatives to punishment that she calls “the magic list”. This approach enables adults to:
- be teachers, not dictators or prison guards
- stop antisocial, inappropriate behaviour in the classroom
- model constructive methods of handling anger and resolving conflicts
- help children develop social responsibility and self-respect.

Beyond the Rainbow Bridge is based on an American Steiner School Parent Enrichment program. It is a readable handbook which covers topics such as: healthy rhythms in home and school; what kind of play stimulates imagination; how to protect the child’s developing senses; the stages of a child’s physical growth; creative discipline; and how to create birthday stories, knot dolls and puppets.

By Alice Miller

Alice Miller explains her conviction that violence and cruelty in society have their roots in conventional child rearing and education. She shows how many children, adapted from birth to the needs and ambitions of their parents, lose the ability to experience and express their true feelings, eventually to become estranged from their real selves. In sublimating their full potential in order to fulfil the desires of their parents, they impede their own creativity, vitality and integrity.

By Rahima Baldwin

This book covers many subjects such as: Your are your child’s first teacher, receiving and caring for the newborn, growing down and waking up, helping your baby’s development in the first year, helping your toddler’s development, parenting issues of the first three years, the development of fantasy and creative play, nourishing your child’s imagination, developing your child’s artistic and musical abilities, rhythm and discipline in home life, cognitive development and early childhood education, readiness for first class and other parenting issues.

By Karin von Schilling

At the time Karin wrote this book she was an active member of the Anthroposophical Society as well as the Christian Community. The sudden death of her only child in a car accident lead her to write this book, to explore her own feelings and ultimately the understanding of ‘the grace of death’.

A newsletter of the Australian Association for Rudolf Steiner Early Childhood Education.
Star Weavings grew out of a need to strengthen communication between those working with the child under seven, both in Rudolf Steiner schools and in the wider community. The weaving image was chosen to represent strength through a common foundation of Rudolf Steiner\s indications (the warp), and enrichment and enlivening through individuals sharing of their work (the weft).

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