Tending the Spark
Light the Future for Middle-school Students
Published on 16. May 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-943582-26-6 (ISBN)
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.
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.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
NY
United States
Dimensions
Height: 155 mm
Width: 229 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
324 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-943582-26-6 (9781943582266)
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Person
Betty Staley (1938-2025) 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 almost two decades. She was an advocate and pioneer of the Waldorf Movement in public charter schools, as well as an author or editor of many books.