Tending the Spark

Light the Future for Middle-school Students

Betty Staley

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  • Full of insightful ideas and illuminating examples to help young people navigate early puberty and move successfully into young adulthood
  • This book could have been titled, 'how to get your pre-teen to fire you as a manager and hire you back as a consultant'
  • The author has decades of experience as a Waldorf high school teacher

A powerful, insightful book that clearly explains the behaviour of pre-teens and offers parents ideas on how to guide their child through these challenging years.

Format:
paperback
Size:
152 x 228 mm
Publisher:
Waldorf Publications
Subject:
Parenting & Child Health; Waldorf Publications
Extent:
256 pages
ISBN:
9781943582266
Publication date:
16 May 2019

Description

This book could have been titled, 'how to get your pre-teen to fire you as a manager and hire you back as a consultant'.

Parents and carers of twelve to fifteen year olds often find their children pulling away and almost disappearing from view. Based on her decades of experience as a Waldorf high school teacher, Betty Staley offers clear explanations for pre-teen behaviour that parents can use to actively support young teenagers.

Full of insightful ideas and illuminating examples, this book will guide parents to help their young person over the bridge of early puberty and on to a productive life as a young adult. Far from seeing them as problems to be solved, this book is a celebration of pre-teens and offers a wise understanding of these wonderful, powerful, strange and private souls who are looking for an identity apart from childhood.

Author

Betty Staley writes with decades of teaching experience both in elementary school and high school. She was Programme Director of the Waldorf High School Education course at Rudolf Steiner College in Sacramento for many years and she was a founder of the Sacramento Waldorf High School where she taught history and literature for nineteen years. She is an advocate and pioneer of the Waldorf Movement in public charter schools. She is a gifted speaker and the author or editor of many books.

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