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When Educational Values Create Social Barriers

My ten-year-old son has been asking why he can't have a phone when all his friends do and I believe in Waldorf's technology limits but I see him becoming socially isolated.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Protective approaches to childhood may inadvertently limit children's access to peer connection and social belonging.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Montessori and Waldorf approaches?”

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