What is Waldorf-Inspired Kindergarten at Home?
What it IS:
- A positive family life centered on the home
- Rhythm
- Time and space for open-ended creative play
- Movement, imitation, and imagination
- Parents modeling meaningful work
- An understanding of ages and stages, that all comes in its own right time
- Creativity, art and freedom within gentle forms
- A home and a family culture which are consciously created
- A focus on connection, boundaries, joy, and love
- A magical childhood
What it is NOT:
- The same thing for every family
- Modeled on a school setting
- A prescribed list of activities or learning goals
- Didactic teaching, product-oriented projects, or intellectual explanations
- Teaching skills out of context (for example, using a worksheet to teach shapes or a button board to teach how to button up a shirt)
- An introduction to phonics, handwriting, or math
- Parents running themselves ragged
- Too much time outside of the home
- Overstimulation, stress, pressure, or age-inappropriate expectations
- Perfectionism and doing everything the “right” way
- Materialism in the guise of a perfect playroom
