A Child’s Family Life In Waldorf Education

The Waldorf education is regarded as one of the world’s four majoreducation concepts. In fact, since2002, the Waldorf education has been first introducedto people in the magazine. In recent years, with more and more people coming intolearn Waldorf education in our country, it has bigger influence on our education. As akind of "non-mainstream" education, its preschool education theory gets unprecedentedattention. In China, a lot discussion about Waldorf education spring up.The children’s learning must rely on effective family environment;family-kindergarten cooperation has been a very important part is in kindergarten work,especially in Waldorf kindergarten. Compared with the mainstream schools, the Waldorfeducation put forward higher request and challenges to family. The parents have beengiven a lot of Suggestions, such as no TV, no computer, no cartoon clothes, etc., thusopposite to the mainstream family educationAt present domestic research and paper about Waldorf education have not so many,and little attention to children’s family life. This paper is a narrative research, it willdescribe a Waldorf school children’s family life, what happened after their children wentto Waldorf? What’s the concrete Waldorf family life like? Whether is it consistent withthe Waldorf education? Why? That is to say, ideal Waldorf family life in contrast to thechildren’s specific family life, to show their behaviors in the family "trivia" about youngchildren and their parents In details I want to discuss Waldorf education theory. And thispaper tends to provide some suggestion and reference to parents especially inmainstream school.In this paper, the family life is basically divided into two categories, externalphysical parts and internal intangible, fourteen items in all. Through continuous days ofobservation and interviews, in external physical parts, the children’s food is givenpriority to with organic food; this child takes some fixed housework; play range from the hall to his bedroom; The house is decorated to be concise; Light and bright indoor;Dress in plain colors without cartoon; most are plastic Lego toys, small part of cartoontoys and electric toys, children can use computer to play games, painting; the number ofbooks is more than one hundred, from the picture books to encyclopedia; There is a setof TV in the living room but it doesn’t “work”; this child usually sleeps at half past eightat night, before sleeping, he washes himself, parents tells a story; Short-term travelprimarily in a nearby park and surrounding, also there are multinational-travel, parentschoose beautiful places, and will invite other children go with companions if possible.Most of these are in conformity with the Waldorf ideas, while others are hard to do.Why don’t you agree? I do discuss the reason. In internal intangible part, familyatmosphere harmonious and warm, parents have certain rules and principles to youngchildren. Of course, in the concrete interaction with parents, children do not always dowhat parents said, for this, this article will select typical examples in the family lifefrom another perspective to show their interactive process, but how to look at theirbehavior and whether there is other possibility to do is what readers can think andpractice.As you can see, the family are very accord with the Waldorf ‘s idea in the sleepness,play space, color, light, and the first three dimensions have no business whit the Waldorfschool, it is the free choice of parents, but supported by Waldorf ideas; the family havehigher perception In the clothing and food; Less is known in books, electronics, orparents hold their own different view; parents do well to build on an atmosphere of love,but father in this paper sometimes become impatient; Mother commonly insists oncertain principles, rules, and has patience, dad sometimes compromises; On the rhythm,the family basically can guarantee a regular routine time, but sometimes is difficult, forexample when they go out for holidays.All in all, the reasons what the family have done accord with the Waldorf may notbe affected by the Waldorf school, but they had similar ideas before; the reasons whatthe family have done is not accord with the Waldorf is that: first, the family is not veryclear about the Waldorf idea; second, the family is greatly influenced by the outsideworld; third, they retain their own different views. Of course, Waldorf parents Doesn’thave to agree with the idea of Waldorf, but if they have highly perception in school, it isundoubtedly the best for children. This would require parents choice school carefully,especially when they meet new thingsWorth to mention is that, as a kind of non-mainstream education, many Chinese parents don’t know Waldorf, my suggestion is parents in the mainstream of educationimitate the to do something first, then observe the changes of their children, instead ofblindly accept or reject, what is more practical and useful. After all, practice is the solecriterion for testing truth.