I like the suggestion to make a story with the animals and maybe do a sort of puppet show with them. I have heard before that children need to bond with a toy before they can play with it, so it seems to be a good way of introducing each animal to the children and giving them an opportunity to play with it. I know at one point I introduced peg dolls to my son's play things and he didn't know what to do with them so I sewed little costumes out of felt for them that we're removable and I said oh see this one is Robin Hood and here is Little John oh and here is a Knight and a Princess. Oh, maybe we want the pink one to be the Princess and here is a Hunter now (with the Robin Hood hat.) I started telling Fairy tales as a puppet show with the peg dolls and that really started up his imagination, so then I leave it for him to make up his own story. It's fun and now he plays with the peg dolls regularly switching costumes or just playing with the plain ones.
My son just seems to walk around aimlessly if he doesn’t have one of us (my husband or me) to play along side him. I try to keep busy with cooking or baking or cleaning or handwork. But it only works for small periods of time. He wants to get into the cooking with me. Or doing the handwork. I like to involve him when I can but I do want more of a boundary. But at the same time I don’t want to tell him off and to go away. Any tips? I suppose I could set up invitations to play but I have a baby and it’s not realistic right now. Thanks!
Hi Sarah, great video as per the usual! I especially enjoyed the bit about rotating toys in and out of use as I thought that was a very clever insight. I was wondering if you'd be willing to answer a slightly more difficult question. After looking into a few Waldorf communities I came across what I found to be a somewhat troubling trend of anti vaccine idealists. After going over Rudolph Steiner's view of vaccinations in medicine, I didn't find anything he said to be particularly in favor or against vaccines one way or the other. Would you be willing to discuss why this attitude seems to be commonplace in some Waldorf communities? If this seems too controversial or something that you aren't interested in addressing I completely understand. I'm just curious if you had any input on this issue since I consider you such a strong and wonderful voice in the Waldorf community!
I am interested in what Sarah has to say about this. I just wanted to add that a lot of parents who don't vaccinate do so due to the presence of aborted fetal cells as an ingredient. Over 50 aborted babies were harvested to fine tune these ingredients in the vaccines we now inject into our babies these days. If you look up the ingredients of the vaccines on the CDC's own website here www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf you will see WI-38 and MRC-5. You can look up and confirm those are indeed cells from aborted babies. A lot of people whose religious beliefs do not agree with abortion therefore cannot agree with medicine that uses cells from those babies as ingredients. That is just one of the many reasons many natural, crunchy moms who believe in the Waldorf methods of play and learning, do not believe in vaccinating.
I like the suggestion to make a story with the animals and maybe do a sort of puppet show with them. I have heard before that children need to bond with a toy before they can play with it, so it seems to be a good way of introducing each animal to the children and giving them an opportunity to play with it. I know at one point I introduced peg dolls to my son's play things and he didn't know what to do with them so I sewed little costumes out of felt for them that we're removable and I said oh see this one is Robin Hood and here is Little John oh and here is a Knight and a Princess. Oh, maybe we want the pink one to be the Princess and here is a Hunter now (with the Robin Hood hat.) I started telling Fairy tales as a puppet show with the peg dolls and that really started up his imagination, so then I leave it for him to make up his own story. It's fun and now he plays with the peg dolls regularly switching costumes or just playing with the plain ones.
My son just seems to walk around aimlessly if he doesn’t have one of us (my husband or me) to play along side him. I try to keep busy with cooking or baking or cleaning or handwork. But it only works for small periods of time. He wants to get into the cooking with me. Or doing the handwork. I like to involve him when I can but I do want more of a boundary. But at the same time I don’t want to tell him off and to go away. Any tips? I suppose I could set up invitations to play but I have a baby and it’s not realistic right now. Thanks!
Hi Sarah, lovely video. I was wondering if you could give a ball park of how many toys should be available at one time? Thank you ❤️
Hi Sarah, great video as per the usual! I especially enjoyed the bit about rotating toys in and out of use as I thought that was a very clever insight. I was wondering if you'd be willing to answer a slightly more difficult question. After looking into a few Waldorf communities I came across what I found to be a somewhat troubling trend of anti vaccine idealists. After going over Rudolph Steiner's view of vaccinations in medicine, I didn't find anything he said to be particularly in favor or against vaccines one way or the other. Would you be willing to discuss why this attitude seems to be commonplace in some Waldorf communities? If this seems too controversial or something that you aren't interested in addressing I completely understand. I'm just curious if you had any input on this issue since I consider you such a strong and wonderful voice in the Waldorf community!
I am interested in what Sarah has to say about this. I just wanted to add that a lot of parents who don't vaccinate do so due to the presence of aborted fetal cells as an ingredient. Over 50 aborted babies were harvested to fine tune these ingredients in the vaccines we now inject into our babies these days. If you look up the ingredients of the vaccines on the CDC's own website here www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/appendices/B/excipient-table-2.pdf you will see WI-38 and MRC-5. You can look up and confirm those are indeed cells from aborted babies. A lot of people whose religious beliefs do not agree with abortion therefore cannot agree with medicine that uses cells from those babies as ingredients. That is just one of the many reasons many natural, crunchy moms who believe in the Waldorf methods of play and learning, do not believe in vaccinating.