You're not the boss of me! : understanding the six/seven-year-old transformation / Ruth Ker, editor.

Includes bibliographical references.

Foreword / Susan Howard -- Introduction / Ruth Ker -- Section One. Pictures of the six/seven-year change -- Observations of the six-year-old change / Ruth Ker -- The birth of the etheric / Nancy Blanning -- Dentition: a mirror of the child's development / Helge Ruof, Jörg Ruof -- Seeing the wholeness of the child Nancy Blanning -- Is our educational system contributing to attentional and learning difficulties in our children? / Susan R. Johnson -- Section Two. Meeting the challenge - the role of the teacher -- Old man trouble / Tim Bennett -- Our role in meeting the children / Barbara Klocek -- Soul Milk / Ruth Ker -- Essential oil baths / Louise deForest -- Extract from Work and play in early childhood / Freya Jaffke -- Section Three. Building the social fabric of a mixed-age kindergarten -- You can't play with me / Barbara Klocek -- The six-year old in a mixed-age kindergarten / Laurie Clark -- The raft / Louise deForest -- The little ones in the classroom / Barbara Klocek -- Girls and boys - feminine and masculine / Louise deForest -- Beer and lollipops / Melissa Borden -- Section Four. Meeting the child's needs - suggestions for working in the classroom -- A working kindergarten / Louise deForest -- Creating a flow in time / Barbara Klocek -- Sailing our ship in fair or stormy weather / Tim Bennett -- The daily blessing of the older child in the kindergarten / Ruth Ker -- Movement journeys: enticing the older child to intentional movement / Nancy Blanning -- The role of handwork / Barbara Klocek -- Little red cap: the overcoming of heredity and the birth of the individual / Louise deForest -- Section Five. Activities and resources for the classroom -- Mother Goose movement journey / Nancy Blanning -- Through the snow: a winter movement journey / Nancy Blanning -- Briar rose circle / Janet Kellman, after the Brothers Grimm -- The gnomes / Janet Kellman -- Star money / Elisabeth Moore-Haas, adapted by Ruth Ker -- The magic lake at the end of the world / adapted by Barbara Klocek -- The pumpkin child / submitted by Ruth Ker -- The legend of Babouschka / adapted by Ruth Ker -- Activity ideas for older children in the kindergarten / compiled by Nancy Blanning and Ruth Ker -- Transitional games, verses and songs / compiled by Barbara Klocek and Ruth Ker -- Jump rope rhymes / compiled by Barbara Klocek and Ruth Ker -- Section Six. Parents as partners -- Waldorf education for the child and parent / Devon Brownsey -- Working with parents: ideas for parent meetings / Ruth Ker and Nancy Blanning -- A bouquet of wishes for the Rosemary Kindergarten -- Meetings with parents on the topic of discipline / Louise deForest -- Working with the will of the young child / Nancy Blanning -- How to get a young child to do what you want without talking yourself to death / Nancy Blanning -- Handouts for parents / Susan R. Johnson :-- The importance of warmth -- The importance of breakfast -- The importance of sleep -- The meaning of illness -- Fever -- The earache -- Parenting a young child - what my formal education never taught me -- Confronting our shadow -- Product vs. process.

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