Unschooling vs. Compulsory Education

This ultra short documentary explains the history of compulsory schooling and advocates choice in education.
It starts 200 years back with Prussian absolutism. There, under the regime of a dictatorship, compulsory schooling was invented and implemented on a massive scale.
It continues to show how educators such as Maria Montessori, Célestin Freinet, Peter Petersen and Rudolf Steiner [...]

The Child is Right – Parenting with Naomi Aldort

Every parent would happily give up ever scolding, punishing or threatening if she only knew how to ensure that her toddler/child/teen would thrive and act responsibly without such painful measures. The book, Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves by Naomi Aldort is the answer to this universal wish. It is not about gentle ways to control [...]

Who Controls Our Children? A MUST SEE Program!

While parents, schools, provinces and states across North America bicker about the democratic process of running public schools, forces are manipulating education from behind the scenes.
Major international players are reshaping public education to suit their own self-serving agendas, without regard for the wants of parents and the welfare of their children.
This video lecture documents how [...]

Another View of Kids Unable to Sit Still

Do you ever wonder why kids often don’t sit still for parents…. but then sit still for hours in front of the Tube watching cartoons?
I find this funny. Why? We often forget how to connect with children.
We think our “powerful” statements are all the reason they need to sit still, finish their dinner, or go [...]

Waldorf Handwriting & The Vimala Alphabet

Soul Development through Handwriting cultivates the noble qualities to which Waldorf education has long been devoted through the use of specific forms for shaping letters.
The Vimala Alphabet was meticulously designed to support independent thinking, engaged willpower, balance, tolerance, honor, and intuition, as well as strengthening the developing soul forces of children.
This book considers personal characteristics, [...]

Waldorf Hand Work Lesson – Fingerknitting a Flower

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To your continued growth and journey!
Kytka “Kit” Hilmar-Jezek

Inspirational Information for Waldorf Homeschoolers

 
 

To your continued growth and journey!
Kytka “Kit” Hilmar-Jezek

You Are Welcome – Notes on Inspiration

You wrote: “Thank you for this message. There was information in it that I wasn’t even aware that I was looking for.”
You are welcome. I have been placing the new site together and was just working on the “testimonials” page, reading all of the thank you and love letters from the past – and reading [...]

Waldorf Parents – What Do You Really Want for Your Children?

Questioning thousands of parents and educators, Dr.Wayne Dyer learned firsthand what people really want for their children. They don’t particularly want their kids to go to fancy schools, acquire riches or live “the good life.” They do want them to have personal integrity and high self-esteem, and to grow up with love and peace in [...]

How to Waldorfize Your Lesson Plans

This video shows an example of a traditional lesson plan that has been “Waldorfized”. Notes are included to point out what has been done and some of the more subtle features of the lesson plans.
To Your Continued Growth and Journey
Kytka “Kit” Hilmar-Jezek