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The Secret Kindergarten Radio Show for Young Children Ep. 129
Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant symbolises how children require play in nature in order to grow into holistically healthy human beings. Powerful forces in nature come to the aid of families who spend time together outdoors in play. Not only part of Native American philosophy, Rudolf Steiner spoke of nature-connections. He was an inspiration for the “Eco-Spirituality” movement. Children spending time in nature, with their families, brings us back to an ancient time. Indo-Europeans had the nature connection and may have been responsible for the symbolic sequences of Natural Law found in many fairy tales. They also held the children in extremely high regard. The initiation of the child, into the seventh year of age, was a huge ritual and celebration. This, in my opinion, means that the ancient Indo-Europeans understood the importance of the life of the child in the early years.
Music
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Audiobooks
Wilde, Oscar. (1854-1900). The Selfish Giant. Read by John Van Stan for LibriVox.Org.
https://librivox.org/childrens-short-works-vol-023-by-various/
Books
Bond, Ruskin. (Ed.). (2006). “”. The Rupa Book of Favourite Fairy Tales. Rupa & Co.
https://books.google.co.nz/books/about/The_Rupa_Book_of_Favourite_Fairy_Tales.html?id=_hAWKDeF3sAC&redir_esc=y
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