“I feel strongly that we don’t need another authority or set of rules by which to raise children, and I remind parents that Steiner himself never had any children. But if we can enlarge our understanding of child and adult development to encompass the whole human being–body, mind, emotions, and spirit–then we will be better equipped to make our own decisions based on a combination of cognitive and intuitive knowledge.” (preface) Some of the most important learning years happen before a child reaches school-age. But children are not little adults–they learn and grow in radically different ways at different ages, especially in the tender early years of life. In You Are Your Child’s First Teacher, Rahima Baldwin Dancy explains the different stages of learning that children go through from birth to age six, giving parents and caregivers the wisdom and understanding to enrich the natural development of all children, in the right way at the right time.
