The Developing Child
Sense and Nonsense in Education

Willi Aeppli

$16.95

In this simple gem of a book, Willi Aeppli takes us to the very core of the task of education. His is not a picture of senseless cramming and memorization, but of service to each child and to humanity. All who seek an education make the greatest sacrifice, that of the self, all their gifts, and their future. They have the full right to expect that this self will be returned as a stronger and truer self. Aeppli describes a curriculum that can make this possible. This book develops not from theory, but from years of practical experience.

Willi Aeppli (1894-1972) was a master Waldorf teacher in the Rudolf Steiner School in BAsel, Switzerland. He is remembered as an excellent teacher who used his observations and daily experience to enrich his classroom teaching.

Encountering the Self

Hermann Koepke

Back in print!

$12.95

Between the ages of nine and ten, as their I incarnates more deeply, children often experience themselves for the first time as separate individuals, different from their parents and peers, and essentially alone. Hermann Koepke provides a lucid and highly readable explanation of the outer signs and symptoms of this essential turning point in the life of a child. He demonstrates the significance of this crucial moment by showing how the destiny and achievements of such personalities as Dante, Heinrich Schliemann, Oskar Kokoschka, Rudolf Steiner and Bruno Walter rest upon a fateful encounter or event in their ninth year.

On the Threshold of Adolescence
The Struggle for Independence
in the Twelfth Year

Hermann Koepke

$19.95

Hermann Koepke guides us to an understanding of the often tumultuous changes children undergo as they approach adolescence. He does so in a very creative way: through the eyes and experiences of a young teacher, Suzanne, as she endeavors to cope with the difficulties she and her students' parents face: drug use, smoking, apathy, rebelliousness, moodiness, and more. As her class changes, she adapts her teaching. She learns a great deal about these children, and in the process, teaches us a great deal about our own preadolescents. The period surrounding age 12 can be challenging and stressful to parents and children alike - Hermann Koepke offers just the sort of living understanding that can lead us out of the seemingly endless wilderness.

Working with Anxious, Nervous and Depressed Children
A Spiritual Perspective to Guide Parents

Henning Köhler

Introduction by Philip Incao, MD

Softbound

$18.00

Henning Köhler courageously presents parents and teachers with a practical path of schooling the thinking, heart, and will in selfless devotion to the individual destiny of each child. This is a book every teacher, parent and friend of children will want to read and consider - it offers a way of receiving troubled children into our hearts, into the stream of our love such that healing and forward movement become possible.

Hathor the Moon Cow

Sex Education - A Creative Approach

Alan Whitehead

$18.95

I think this journey into human sexuality - and how to convey its physical, social and spiritual realities and outcomes to children (at around age 12 for direct teaching) is one of the most refreshing approaches I've ever read. In the author's usual humorous and relaxed style, virtually every topic of importance is touched upon - actually, delved into far beyond the surface - in a way that is open, engaging and utterly unabashed. I can imagine this one volume being of enormous help to both teachers and parents as they guide children into a healthy adulthood.