Your Reincarnating Child
Welcoming a Soul to the World
Gilbert Childs and Sylvia Childs

Your Reincarnating Child, by Gilbert and Sylvia Childs, maintains as its primary thesis that each individual, as a spiritual being, lives beyond death, and eventually returns to life in a new human body. With this knowledge in mind, the authors give much sound practical advice as to how parents, and others who spend time with children, can welcome a soul into the world and help it to develop into a healthy, balanced and responsible human being.

Based on Rudolf Steiner's insights into the spiritual nature of the human being, the authors demonstrate that an understanding of the whole human being as comprising body, soul and spirit leads to the conclusion that every child should be allowed to grow gradually into the world. Mainstream educational policies and practices can result in children being pushed prematurely towards adulthood, before having had a chance truly to experience the important soul-sustaining qualities childhood.

'One of the main purposes of this book', write the authors, 'is to demonstrate that human beings are primarily of spiritual nature, and only secondarily of bodily nature'. They explain how these two natures complement each other in the processes of maturation and development from the period before birth, or incarnation, to maturity. The authors also stress the importance of different phases of growth and development within childhood, each of which needs to be recognised as having its own intrinsic qualities, and that both parenting care and education must recognise these and adjust the approaches in both areas to work in relationship to these. As well as a firm philosophical grounding, Your Reincarnating Child discusses critical questions surrounding the pre- and antenatal periods, including issues connected to clothing, food, play, work, technology, discipline, and much more.

Sophia Books
179pp; paperback
ISBN: 1-85584-126-6
 

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GILBERT CHILDS attended the Steiner teacher training course at Michael Hall after war service. He later studied at four universities, his doctoral thesis being entitled 'Steiner Education as Historical Necessity'. After teaching at State and Steiner schools he spent twenty years as a tutor in a further education college for severely physically disabled students. His published works include Understand Your Temperament and The Journey Continues.

SYLVIA CHILDS, BEd, MA, DipTchg (Waikato, New Zealand) had eleven years' experience of teaching children of all ages. During this time she became convinced of the viability of Steiner's educational philosophy, and the great responsibility parents and teachers bear for their part in forming the destiny of the children entrusted to them.
 

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