Let’s face it: Parenting can be tough sometimes. Just when we think we’re on sure footing with our children, the landscape changes beneath our feet. The Denver Waldorf School is committed to helping our parent community navigate the joyful, fun and sometimes choppy waters of parenthood. Together, we are building the community we want to see in the world. We are a community committed to nurturing and holding the children, gently guiding them on their individual and unique paths toward adulthood.
As part of our on-going commitment to community education, we often share news articles of interest through our monthly Newsletters, weekly Community Updates, The Denver Waldorf School Facebook page and class emails. This page is an archive of these articles.
Early Childhood Articles
Children Should Be Allowed to Get Bored, Experts Say – BBC News, March 22, 2013
Modifying a Child’s Behavior Without Resorting to Bribes – The New York Times, January 11, 2013
Scientific Inquiry Among the Preschool Set – The New York Times, October 1, 2012
Play, Stress and the Learning Brain – The DANA Foundation, September 24, 2012
Why 6-year-old Girls Want to be Sexy – Waldorf Today, September, 2012
How Creeping and Crawling Prepares a Child for School Life – Movement for Childhood, Summer, 2012
If We Don’t Let Our Children Play, Who Will Be the Next Steve Jobs? – Huff Post.com, October 20, 2011
Music Feeds Your Soul and Builds Your Brain – BrainAthelte.com
Education Articles
Technology Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say – The New York Times, November 1, 2012
Philosophizing Science: A Different Approach to American Higher Education – The Rice Standard, October 8, 2012
Teachers’ Expectations Can Influence How Students Perform – NPR, September 17, 2012
Back to School – An episode about an emerging theory no what to teach kids from the book, “How Children Succeed” by Paul Tough – This American Life, September 14, 2012
Early Music Lessons Have Longtime Benefits – New York Times, September 10, 2012
Tiny Lifesaver for a Growing Worry: EpiPens in Schools – New York Times, September 7, 2012
Teach Your Children Well: Sir Ken Robinson Calls for a Revolution in Education – Costco Connection, August, 2012
The Importance of Music in Schools – Denver Post, May, 1, 2010
Parenting Articles
No More 1950s: How Simplicity Parenting is the Way to Prepare Kids for a Complex Future – Waldorf Today, September, 2012
A Child’s Place Is in the Kitchen: How Cooking Advances Learning – Culinate, September 15, 2010
What Ails Us? Reframing the Way We Think About Chronic Illness, Drug Addiction and Attention-Deficit Disorder – Waldorf Today, September, 2012
Raising Successful Children – New York Times, August 4, 2012
Resilience – Waldorf Today, August 2012
Welcome to the Age of Over Parenting – Boston Magazine
How to Land Your Kid in Therapy – The Atlantic, July, 2011
The Hormone Surge of Middle Childhood – New York Times, December 26, 2011
No Bad Kids – Toddler Discipline Without Shame – JanetLansbury.com, April 29, 2010
Technology Articles
Assessing the Creative Spark ~ TIME Magazine, May 20, 2013
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Mind Over Machinery – Waldorf Today, January 14, 2013
How True Are Our Assumptions About Screen Time? – NAEYC, October, 2012
Is Technology Sapping Children’s Creativity? – The Washington Post, September 13, 2012
The Twitter Trap – New York Times, May 18, 2011
Publications, Newsletters and Blogs
Association of Waldorf Schools of North America (AWSNA)
Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America
Reflections on Parenting – Blog by Colette Green, retired DWS teacher and Simplicity Parenting Course teacher
Rudolf Steiner on the Internet
The Anthroposophical Society – Denver Branch
Other Waldorf Schools in Our Area
Shining Mountain Waldorf School – Boulder, CO
Shepherd Valley Waldorf School – Niwot, CO
Tara Performing Arts High School – Boulder, CO
Waldorf School on the Roaring Fork – Carbondale, CO