Originally Posted by ultramarina
Is your child in a Waldorf school? This is a Waldorf belief. I think it's hokum.

Waldorf pedagogy also holds that children should not/cannot learn to read before they start losing their teeth.

Well my son lost his first tooth at 6 and had been reading for well over 2 years. He was reading at a 4th grade level when he lost his tooth...so don't tell him about Waldorf.


...reading is pleasure, not just something teachers make you do in school.~B. Cleary