Understanding of Waldorf education

There are a few words written in front:

In fact, if I can meet a good teacher, I will not reject traditional gardens too much. But in traditional gardens, the probability of meeting a good teacher is not great. Most traditional gardens have a bad atmosphere.

Maybe it's because of full-time. Most attention is paid to children, so I pay special attention to parenting.

When the baby was young, I took her around the community and saw various kindergartens every day. Sometimes I will take her to an "internship" and watch the activities of my big brother and big sister in kindergarten during recess. Later, I want her to go to the university affiliated park near her home. That garden was also the kindergarten my husband went to when he was a child. It has a long history. The playground is big enough and there are several big slides. Ordinary.

However, deep down, I have a lot of concerns about kindergarten. The main reason is that I don't trust the teacher. It is a great event for children to leave their mother for kindergarten.

This is the first step for the baby to enter the society. I think this step is very important.

Choosing a kindergarten is no less than choosing a university. Moreover, without a good teacher, even with the best hardware facilities, this garden is a "failure" in my eyes.

The following is my "prejudice" against most kindergartens now.

I don't like the behavior of "giving red envelopes to teachers". More seriously, I think it is "greed" in human evil. This kind of "greed" is carried forward by parents without restriction. When children grow up in this garden, will there be the kind of corruption in the TV series in the name of people?

My uncle's sister is a kindergarten teacher. In a large regular kindergarten, she was embarrassed to receive red envelopes at first, but later, as the holiday approached, she was eager to receive red envelopes. She was corroded by that garden. And I asked her: "After giving the red envelope, will you be kind to other people's children?" She answered me, "What should I do?" .

For another example, I don't like "learning" in kindergarten. It seems that learning English and math languages is standard in kindergartens at this stage. But is this really good? The consciousness of the word "preschool" means "before the age of study", and most traditional gardens are ahead of time.

The following is an excerpt:

Generally speaking, after the age of 7, children's sensory integration function gradually matures, and the basic sensory integration operation can be carried out naturally and smoothly under the cerebral cortex without consuming the brain. Therefore, children can concentrate on abstract learning visually and audibly.

-"Sensory Integration Part I Discovering the Brain"

I think I can understand my parents now. They want their children to "win at the starting line", but they worry too much. They are worried that "if they are not allowed to learn to sit well in kindergarten now, how can they sit still in primary school in the future?" . As everyone knows, such ignorance harms children. Active is the characteristic of children, and it is the "active" now that will make future children "concentrate".

And does the "starting line" that parents are so worried about really exist? Life is a marathon, and childhood is the time to lay the foundation, not the time to be faster than anyone else.

I still have a lot of "prejudice" against traditional gardens. For example, there are twenty or even thirty students in a class, and some classrooms are still very small. Children spend much more time indoors than outdoors. They have no free time for activities. In order to "manage" children and maintain "order", teachers have made many rules. These are contrary to the physiological characteristics of children's free exploration and initiative.

Why do I spend a lot of time saying "bad words" about traditional gardens as the subtitle of Waldorf in my eyes?

Because in Waldorf, none of this is. There is no tendency for parents to help their children with their homework, no birthday cakes and gifts for classmates, no video surveillance (monitoring behavior itself is parents' distrust of the school), no red envelopes, no coldness such as criticism and scolding. ...

A teacher in our garden gave birth to a child, and several of our parents went to the hospital to visit, and red envelopes were stuffed under the pillows. We all really want to send blessings, not utilitarian red envelopes. As a result, at the parent-teacher meeting, another teacher said that the money would be included in the next tuition.

What does Waldorf have? Why did I run to Waldorf without looking back?

Above, there are only nine Niu Yi hairs.

Personally, I think there are two kinds of parents who choose Waldorf. First, they have studied Waldorf education and like it very much. Second, Waldorf is the choice to avoid disappointment or even fear of the current traditional gardens.

Many parents, including me, should have come from the second category and gradually become the first category.

The work and rest of Waldorf Kindergarten is like this:

Morning circle, free activities, morning session, theme activities

Puppet show at noon, Thanksgiving songs, lunch

Nap, free activities, afternoon.

Our garden is roughly this time rhythm, and the "theme activities" are different every day:

Pinch beeswax on Monday;

Cooking cookies on Tuesday;

Wednesday wet watercolor;

Cleaning on Thursday;

Hiking on Friday,

Waldorf's puppet shows, four seasons tables, toys, etc. The teacher made them all by herself.

(natural beeswax)

(Friday's hike)

In fact, Waldorf also has elementary schools, junior high schools and high schools. In Shenyang, there are 9 Waldorf kindergartens and 2 primary schools, but there are no middle schools.

In addition, Waldorf has many excellent books. If you are interested, you can start with simple parents' classics and professional books such as children's picture books and anthroposophy.

Above, I have said it. As a child who grew up in kindergarten, what does my baby think? My children have been a little insecure since childhood. He is an "introverted" child in the eyes of ordinary people. If you ask me why, I really didn't take care of myself during pregnancy. Because I brought up the child myself, I ate and drank Lazar, and I never left her. She was also very attached to her mother. In other words, she is completely used to having me in her world. Going to kindergarten is a challenge for me and my children. I am very anxious about the separation from my children.

But at Waldorf, teachers take care of children's emotions. When we entered the park, the baby successfully passed the separation anxiety period, and then she was reluctant to leave after school every day. Now when I am at home, the baby will tell me about kindergarten from time to time and tell me that I like Teacher Cui and Teacher Zhao. Eat well, and say that you want the teacher to eat. Whether it is love or fear, whether you like kindergarten or don't want to go, children can never pretend. So little guy, the most convincing.

I feel more and more that the most important thing in raising children is parents' learning and growth. What really nourishes children and gives them strength is the spiritual nourishment of parents. This is a little compliment to myself. I spent five days reading a long-delayed book, one chapter a day, and I didn't delay reading when I went out to travel. If I kept the book there, I would think that "there are too many books for me to finish" and I would take action, but in fact, it "reads quickly".

My little progress will be noticed by my children. This kind of adult's influence on children is the spiritual pillar of children when they are confused in the future. Instead of learning how many Tang poems to recite.

This is also the biggest reason why I chose Waldorf-my own change. Now I can really thank myself two years ago. Thanks to myself two years ago, I chose to approach Waldorf.

My efforts have changed me from an anxious mother to a calm and more confident mother.

I remember a sentence from the official account of Wu Zhihong WeChat, and I like it very much:

Stewed beef

It's me.

Only I can help myself.

Climb over one mountain after another

Overcome difficulties again and again

This kind of "resurrection" ability, Waldorf has.

Finally, I want to make a mistake and present a poem.

Baby, baby,

I love you,

In my Me Before You,