Comments on: Waldorf 101: Setting Up Your Family For Homeschooling Success

By: Carrie

Carrie — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:49:22 +0000

Diane, I think many little guys like Legos,,,, it is not exceptionally natural materials, of course, but I think playing with a set of Legos is not going to do harm. Especially if the set is one of those free building ones as opposed to sets where you are supposed to build one thing only. If you haven’t already introduced legos I would wait until he was a bit older, since he is a very young 6, but if this is already that exists in your playscape, then I think it is one of those things that you pick many natural toys to have out, you can rotate the legos to come down on a certain day or on the weekend, and there you go….This is real life, right? No losing the forest for the trees here, LOL. I happen to know Donna Simmons of Christopherus Homeschool loves playmobile and I am sure we all have our favorite non-natural toys…

Hope that is helpful Carrie

By: Diane

Diane — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:26:42 +0000

Enjoying your informative and supportive information! There is a new kind of question arising in me lately, and I wanted to see if you might be able to speak to it. My son has just turned 6 – only a few days ago. The very short version of the question I have been carrying is — what are your thoughts on legos as play/toy, and specifically, legos as a toy/form of play in the 7 and under (again, my son is 6)? Would love to hear from you on this.

Many thanks.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:26:57 +0000

Glad to see you back!

By: erin

erin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:42:35 +0000

I love reading your post, they feed my soul. I haven’t been on for a while and I look forward to catching up tonight. Thank you for what you do.

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on support and playrooms « woowoo mama — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:10:04 +0000

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By: michelle

michelle — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:53:24 +0000

What a great list! I would say fairies and gnomes initially turned me off…a little to Lord of the Rings meets The Wizard of Oz. No offense to anyone, just my initial thoughts. But then I was really drawn in by all the things that you mentioned as being the least important…wooden toys, handwork, and so on.

I find the more I delve into the Anthro. aspects of Waldorf the more I am interested in that, then the other.

I also find that things that I have had loads of interest in always end up having a connection to the Waldorf world. Like NT and WAPS for example.

Back to your list… I have the most work to do on #6. Which might just be one of the most important ideas. I find my self repeating the words, Warmth and Reverence, a LOT! Words that you have taught me about here. But some how the overwhelming stress of the day sometimes gets the best of me, and I always am left feeling failure instead of success in the wonderful world of mothering.

If all I could provide for my son was a warm place to land were he felt respected, and protected I would feel successful. But instead trying to preform all the “right” tasks through day leave me a little less then at my best. So I will continue working on Warmth and Reverence. Please keep the threads coming on this topic…I need them!

By: Heather

Heather — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:38:47 +0000

Wonderful post, thank you for sharing