The Waldorf Homeschool Handbook Paperback – January 1, 2014

This trinket of a book reads more like a list of features a Waldorf inspired homeschool should include with a few superficial personal accounts. The taunting glimpses of practical advice and tangible information felt a bit like a sales pitch for resources listed at the end of the book. If you are building you curriculum and learning how to “establish rythym” in your Waldorf inspired homeschool so many wonderful resources (The Task and Content of the Steiner-Waldorf Curriculum, Waldorf Education a Family Guide, Storytelling with Children by Nancy Mellon, Painting and Drawing in Waldorf Schools by Thomas Waldgruber, to name a few) worthy of your time and genuinely helpful. Don’t wast your time!

The Waldorf Homeschool Handbook is a great resource for anyone new to Waldorf! There is an over abundance of information that you can search through online when beginning your Waldorf homeschool journey, but thankfully the meat of the information you need is all compiled in this beautiful guide. A quick and easy read to get you started with an understanding that gives you the confidence to move forward with your homeschooling plans!

This book is barely 100 pages. When I say barely, I mean that there are large swaths of blank space every couple of pages and needlessly large fonts so that few words are able to take up an entire page. It isn't as detailed as I had expected or hoped considering the price. It serves as good but short introduction on Waldorf and homeschooling. I found the parts on planning out the school year to be helpful, but overall lacking in content.

When we decided to bring Waldorf into our home it was daunting. I was unsure of the terminology and needed help with the everyday rhthyms. This book helped. Clear, concise and easy to use.

I loved that this was such a easy, to the point read !

This is a beautiful handbook with a lot of great information. Donna has put together the essential information for getting started: background, foundations, planning, etc. Someone mentioned in another review that they could've found all of this information just by searching blogs and forums online -- that may be true to a certain extent, BUT that would require you to search for it, and then compile all of that essential information together. Donna has done all of the work for you, and put it together in a beautiful book. I'm a visual learner and I'm grateful to have this to highlight, stick post its in, and refer to it whenever I need a reminder. In addition, her resources page is packed with good resources.

Fantastic!!!!!

I found this book to be an awesome guide into homeschooling. It gives you a wonderful idea of what you will need and the basics that will form and create rhythm for your day. Highly recommended!