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Rahima Baldwin Dancy is internationally known as a Waldorf early childhood educator, author of Special Delivery, and coauthor of Pregnant Feelings. A mother of four, Dancy is a founding board member of LifeWays North America and co-founded/directed Rainbow Bridge LifeWays Program in Boulder, afficher plus Colorado. Currently, she is the director of Informed Family Life, through which she organizes national conferences on alternatives in birth, parenting, and education. Visit www.waldorfinthehome.org. afficher moins

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This was an invaluable resource when I was expecting my only baby. I was convinced that my labor could be a mystical, wonderful experience and I was determined and prepared to deliver my son naturally at a birthing center. Reading this book eased all of my fears about labor.

I won't ruin any prospective readers' hopes and explain how my labor REALLY went... :)
 
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engpunk77 | Aug 14, 2015 |
This book is worth reading but can be maddening. Some of the advice within is among the best I've read (insightful, human-development based, so practical, and so "true") and will stay with me and my parenting. Yet as a solid, definitive commentary on "enouraging your child's natural development from birth to age six" it falls short in disappointing and bizarre ways. One, the book begins with a certain flow, then deteriorates on its own rambling path at the end, so that after birth through three is covered in depth, it never specifically get to ages 3 through 6 in the same way. Two, the basic premise and set of assumptions that the book seems to start with are not carried through in a cohesive way through the end of the book, so the reader is left trying to figure out how the dots are supposed to connect in many places. Three, most of the author's ideas are founded in Waldorf education/the ideas of Rudolph Steiner and there are lots of random references to "Steiner's indications" (which, if you know anything about Waldorf/Steinerism strikes me as some sort of doublespeak) without ever establishing for the reader, why this person and his philosophies from a century ago are the end all and be all of childrearing. They pop out without any context or without, in my mind, any proper modern science or theory to back it up. The section on art is most revealing of this in its intense focus, for example, on specific ways, colors, and paper for painting and using beeswax rather than clay for modeling. Unfortunately, these shortcomings of the book are in line with unanswered criticisms (as far as I can tell) of Waldorf education (why the cult-y vibe, doublespeak, and institutionalized veiling of Steiner's spiritualism and custom-built cosmology?, etc.). The author is clearly a gifted writer, thinker, and educator who cares deeply about children and has a lot of important things to say, but I felt too distracted by the Waldorfian mysteries within. As far as I can tell, most of the ideas espoused can stand on their own...and should. Leave out the rest or move it to an appendix and properly label and introduce it.… (plus d'informations)
 
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FranklynCee | Jun 3, 2013 |
This book had a lot of interesting theories. Waldorf is maddening though - it seems like a method/school of thought that has such potential, and that I would love to explore further, yet it is probably easier to find books on ancient Greek than on Waldorf philosophy and homeschooling, PARTICULARLY after the age of 6. I'm not sure why, exactly, Waldorf theorists would rather you only buy your books from a few expensive sources, and why there really isn't any material available in the public library, even by interlibrary loan. It is too, too bad. I would really love to learn more about it. I appreciate the seasonality, and the emphasis on crafts, on the connections that we, as people, have to our past, and our heritage, and the world around us. I feel like it DOES make for a more well-rounded person.… (plus d'informations)
 
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AnnieHidalgo | 3 autres critiques | Apr 27, 2011 |
If only the Waldorf-related books could leave out the Waldorf "spiritual" stuff. It doesn't even add to the substance -- it's just pseudo-interpretive stuff layered on top that basically gets in the way.
 
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lquilter | 3 autres critiques | Aug 4, 2010 |

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