(waldorf kid here) while that is an obvious confound, the waldorf pedagogy strong encourages children not be exposed to any screen time at all. It goes further: even at the kindergarten level, all toys and costumes are natural materials, you won't find a single piece of plastic among items intended for a child's use. Even the crayons are made of beeswax.
> It goes further: even at the kindergarten level, all toys and costumes are natural materials, you won't find a single piece of plastic among items intended for a child's use. Even the crayons are made of beeswax.
I can't possibly imagine the purpose for these restrictions.
Waldorf is all about fostering imagination, so they try to limit anything that comes with a pre-defined set of ideas that tell you how to interact with it. A plastic firetruck already has an identity; an unfinished wood truck can be anything.
Are they still making you memorize colors for days of the week? My ex gf tried to go out of a Waldorf program into engineering at CU Boulder and had no clue how to use a computer.
No doubt, it's absolutely soaked in weird Christian Theosophy. More likely to pick Montessori for my own youngins, wanted to provide some accurate info.
