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Brilliant Parenting Discussion Group

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

The Brilliant Parenting Discussion Group will meet at Water’s Edge Waldorf School, 150 W. Bonner Road at 7:00 p.m. on the 4th Wednesday of each month to discuss a variety of topics of interest to parents who take a mindful approach to the choices they make in raising their children. The group is open to [...]

Atricle: “The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting”

Sunday, November 29th, 2009

This recent article has been passed around by a number of parents and teachers at our school.  We’ve decided to share it here, so it can be easily passed along to the rest of our community as well as friends and family:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1940395-1,00.html
Please feel free to leave comments here!

Link of The Week

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Water’s Edge parent, Claudia M. Lenart has written another wonderful article!  Here is the link to it:
http://nutrition.suite101.com/article.cfm/best_brain_foods_for_children
Feel free to share your comments too!

Parent’s Corner: Fifth Grade Pentathlon

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

In the fifth grade, Waldorf students learn that the Olympics were an expression of that golden age when the ideal of the human form, in physical beauty and inner grace, comes together to create something heroic within the individual and blesses all those who are fortunate to witness the event. As the stories brought by [...]

From the Student Perspective: A Visit to Public School

Monday, April 27th, 2009

My daughter has attended Water’s Edge since she was two.  She has been understandably curious about public school, so we arranged for her to shadow a friend for a day during our winter break. We hear from children who transfer in about the differences they see here but hearing it from a Waldorf student looking the [...]