Waldorf Family Life

I came across this list on a blog I ran into on a blog today (this one right here), and thought I would share it with you because I really liked what it had to say.  Honestly, if I could have afforded it I would have sent all of my kids to a Waldorf school. I love the vibe and the whole child method of developing a young one into becoming their best self.

Although there are some things on this list that I certainly do not entertain everyday or even at all there is a lot on it that I truly love. Enjoy!

WALDORF FAMILY

Create a Waldorf Family Life

• Get rid of the televisions, video games, and limit computer access until age twelve.
• Go outside and play every day, year round.
• Eat your food whole.
• Hug every day.
• Be open to what the little ones will teach you.
• Be the firm and loving authority.
• Make it yourself, and if you don't know how, learn
• Tell stories and play games. A lot.
• Think about how your things speak to you.
• Keep the voices calm, quiet, and as natural as possible.
• “Do not worry that your children never listen to you, worry that they are always watching you.” ~ Robert Fulgum
• Meditate or do some form of inner work daily.
• Rid yourself of anything that has not been touched in over a month.
• Sing and share lovely verses for important days and every day.
• Create rituals around bedtime, light a candle, sing lullabies and pray to the guardian angels.
• Hold back intellectual concepts from under 7 as they are in the motor centre still.
• Try and keep a dreamlike quality in everything you do.
• Slow down and take time.
• Establish rhythm, use repetition, foster reverence, awe and wonder.
• Create a beautiful and harmonious environment.
• Honor the need for time and space.
• Sing through the day.
• Have conversations with the spiritual world.
• Remember the elemental beings.
• Be authentic in what you do and say .
• Involve the children in household tasks in all areas of domestic work from a very young age 
• Active learning - learning by doing, by observing, by making, by experiencing.
• Make things from scratch, let the kids be involved and observe the TIME and love necessary to create something beautiful and lasting, soup, bread, cream, butter...
• Create gardens, meals, tree forts, gifts, art....
• Working on ones self (meaning the parent
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