How to develop all the talents of the child (according to Rudolf Steiner)

Steiner's pedagogy places great importance on the development of the child's talents. Children have myriad possibilities and potentials

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La Steiner pedagogy o Waldorf pedagogy, an educational approach that developed on the basis of Rudolf Steiner's indications, gives great importance to the development of the child's talents. Children have myriad possibilities and potentials that deserve to be discovered and stimulated.

From this point of view, the role of parents is fundamental. Rudolf Steiner attached great importance to the band of preschool age of children, which indicated 0 to 7 years, as a period in which to develop skills and talents.

The years leading up to school are decisive for children. The game it is the main means through which the potential and talents of the child can express themselves in complete freedom.

The author Arve Mathisen explains it very well in a book dedicated to Steiner pedagogy explained to parents: 'How to develop all the talents of the child'.

Il parental duty is to encourage as much as possible the occasions in which the child can gain experience, for example with free games, with tailor-made domestic activities and encounters with the natural world as well as with drawings, songs, dances, music and stories.

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Steiner's pedagogy describes an education that is attentive to all dimensions of the child: physical, psychic and spiritual. During the school years he will follow an intellectual education but before the child finds himself among the desks and on the books it is good that he gives space as much as possible to play, intuition, imagination and creativity.

Here are some important tips that parents can get ideas for help children develop all their talents:

1. Tell children with fairy tales, rhymes and stories.
2. Sing with the children and listen music together.
3. Building toys for children e play with them.
4. Dedicate yourself to creative movement accompanied by words and music.
5. Give space tomodern art, allow children to draw, paint and color freely.
6. Explore the nature identity, learn about plants and animals, cultivate the vegetable garden.
7. Educate your child to a healthy eating.
8. Recognize the wisdom children and listen to them.
9. Involving children in housework.
10. Spend of time outdoors, stroll and play in the green.

In particular in Steiner's pedagogy as in the Montessori method it is very important involve children in home activities since the little ones are always fascinated by the actions of adults and would love to imitate them. When they are very young, children can imitate adults simply by playing. We think about when the parents are in the kitchen preparing dinner.

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In the meantime, a two or three year old child can imitate mum or dad washing vegetables, just provide him with a bowl of water with a few pieces of vegetables. In this way the child will not feel abandoned and will understand that he is part of the family and that he is important.

Another fundamental point is represented by the game. For Rudolf Steiner play is fun and fun creates willpower. This is because when children play they use all the elements that form the will. Through the joys and defeats of play, children learn to recognize their own possibilities and limitations.

For the well-being of the child all kinds of educational games are important but also free games and spontaneous ones based, for example, on the movement of the body that may be born to the rhythm of music. The game must above all be freedom. Imagine a five-year-old boy running barefoot across a meadow. This child has fun and feels light, he runs and plays for it, in the meantime without knowing it he learns to explore the space that surrounds him.

With the right education the child will learn a recognize their desires, to choose, to take the initiative, to concentrate and, over time, to realize the responsibilities they have towards themselves and others.