The Dignity of the Young Child How Can We Keep the Young Child Healthy? Care and Up-bringing in the First Three Years of Life by Michaela Glöckler

New and successful insights for the care and  raising of the child in the first three years of life. The contributions  in this book deal with the process of incarnation in the first three  years of life. They highlight questions concerning the young  child—walking, speaking and learning to think—on the one hand from the  viewpoint of anthroposophic knowledge of the human being, and on the  other hand from research by Emmi Pikler.

How can the young child be given enough free space to best unfold its innate capacities for the future?
 
How can the child’s autonomous will to learn be supported and  promoted, so that its personality can develop on the basis of trust and  security?
 
How can the relationship skills of the young child be formed by  attentive and trusting togetherness in care situations, as prerequisite  to be freely active.
 

How should the surrounding of the little child be designed, also  with regard to the self-education and self-development of the parents  and educators, so that the child can experience being by itself and then  again in connection with its surroundings?
 
The answers to these four essential questions correspond to the  current state of knowledge and practical experience. To optimally  support children in their development in a world that is often not  child-friendly, the interdisciplinary combination of  medical–psychological–pedagogical research has proven to be particularly  fruitful and forward-looking.
(Published in coordination with the Association of Waldorf Kindergartens and the Medical Section at the Goetheanum.)ISBN:       9783723516157