Creating a Home for Body, Soul and Spirit

Creating a Home for Body, Soul, and Spirit - A New Approach to Childcare This is a thorough, detailed, and comprehensive guide toa new way of working with out-of-home care of young children from ananthroposophical perspective. Part One gives a picture of how the daynursery can support the development of the child through an understanding ofthe fourfold human sheaths, emulating the archetypal home. Part Two goesinto further detail about practical matters, including food, sleep,festivals, and more. Many examples from the author's groundbreaking work atAwhina Day Nursery and Kindergarten in New Zealand, as well as charmingphotographs of the Awhina children, are included.Childcare has become more readily available in the past few decades, growingfrom something relatively small to a burgeoning "industry." It has become aproduct-oriented industry, which sees infants and young children cared forin group situations, usually defined by age and with as many as thirtychildren, sometimes more, in