If you missed today's radio show at the Gnome's Home then you missed a good one! This really is an important topic. For those of you who are following our inner work series on our main blog, this information will help bring it all together; for those who are coming to this new, you'll want to go do the inner work series. This topic is wonderfully transformative, and I encourage you to listen to the show then read some of the resources below each of them comes from the Waldorf Online Library).
Education of the Will as the Wellspring of Morality by Michaela Glockler, MD
The Research Institute for Waldorf Education Progress Report (Great information about the will and also fun other things.)
Education of the Will in the Crafts Lesson
Felting as Handwork in Early Childhood
On the Real Nature of the Will and the Child
Don't forget that we sell handwork supplies in our shop at A Little Garden Flower. Knitting, felting, needle felting, painting, modeling, and drawing are all great tools for building the will in your child and yourself.
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I'll close with a thought from Steiner:
"Never will a person's will - nor as a result a person's character - develop in a healthy way, if one cannot during this period of childhood receive religious impulses deep into the soul. How people feel their place and part in the universal whole will be expressed in the unity of their life of will. If they do not feel linked with strong bonds to a divine-spiritual, their will and character must remain uncertain, divided, and unsound."