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Children take their daytime experience over into their sleep life. In Sleep, Audrey E. McAllen writes explicitly about the importance of sleep in education, including lively descriptions of her experiences working with children. Very valuable are the Moral Color Exercises, a series of paintings she developed from indications by Rudolf Steiner and Hilde Boos-Hamburger, exercises very much appreciated by children from sixth grade on.
—Joep Eikenboom, Waldorf Teacher and Extra Lesson Teacher, Dordrecht,  The Netherlands

Contents: Sleep and Dream
The Threefold Experience of Sleep
Not All My Own Work
The Human Being as a Spatial Being:
The Earth as an Image of the Human Being
The Earth as a Living, Breathing Being
The Child's Relationship to Sleep
Sleep and Reincarnation
The Moral Color Exercises
An Account of Support Lessons with Three Students

Audrey McAllen is an English Waldorf teacher who has spent a lifetime developing ways to help children who have learning difficulties. She based her work on study of Rudolf Steiner's indications regarding spiritual aspects of human development and on her observation of and practical work with many children.

Available from Steiner Books