Christopherus Common Sense Parenting
By Christopherus Homeschool Resources
Categories: Kids & Family, Parenting
A series of talks on basic issues effecting parents, and how, from a traditional Waldorf perspective, one can understand what is happening with one's child and find the right way to move forward. Find out more at https://www.christopherushomeschool.com
10 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- Being artistic
An important part of Christopherus is to help you help your child to become artistic–not necessarily to become an artist. One of the main reasons people reject Waldorf homeschooling is because they are intimidated by the artistic work. You may not be an artist or craftsperson: but everyone can be…
- Quizzes and tests in Waldorf education
Throughout the Christopherus curriculum, starting in about 4th grade, we provide many quizzes and, in later grades, tests. Used properly, a good quiz or test can stretch and challenge a child, helping her view quizzes and tests as tools for self-knowledge. One must never dumb down material–and one…
- Educational excellence and inner satisfaction
Our one-sided society often overlooks and undervalues achievement in realms of life other than academics: whether one is knitting a lamb or carving a figure, one should strive toward excellence, toward doing one’s best. An important goal of Christopherus is to help a child learn to value not outer…
- Sports
Parents often find the question of when to allow their child to participate in sports a vexing one. Like every other parenting and educational question, developmental readiness is paramount. But there is often another issue: the parents’ own relationship to sports. It can be very hard for a parent…
- Birthdays
As a culture, we Westerners–we Americans?–do tend to go all out when it comes to children’s birthdays. But is this necessary? Is it even harmful, counter to how one might wish to raise one’s child?In this short talk, Donna gives 5 tips on celebrating birthdays with little ones, older children and…
- Why Waldorf Form Drawing is important
If someone asked me what I thought was the single most important aspect of Waldorf (Christopherus) education, I would have to say ‘form drawing.’ In our curriculum, we schedule it as the opening of first grade, an opportunity to help your child gently incarnate into her body. If your child is all…
- Imitation: the secret to parenting young children
Everyone knows that young children do what they see, not what they are told to do. Yet many parents spend fruitless hours trying to talk their little ones into better behavior. How much more in tune with your child’s developmental stage you will be if you use that great gift of imitation! One is…
- Five tips to help with reading aloud in your family
Reading aloud is not simply a pleasant activity for bedtime, nor is it only for younger children: reading aloud, done properly, is the basis for literacy and the bedrock of an education aiming at excellence in reading and composition.Christopherus has a top notch language arts program which covers…
- Five tips to help with parenting and homeschooling neurodivergent children
Whether your child has a condition such as autism or displays such behaviors because of environmental factors, changing your life to be less stimulating, quieter and permeated with regular rhythms can help. Few parents and very few doctors and therapists have experienced calm and peaceful children…
- Homelife: the basis for homeschooling
If we are homeschoolers, then our home, and being at home, is what is most important. The home is the vessel, the chalice, the place where karmic relationships between the members of the household unfold. Donna gives five tips on how to make a home which nurtures homeschooling.Here are resources…
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