Willie Mays said that good players can play with their bodies, but great players play with their hearts and minds as well. The same is true for fathering. In Covering Home, author Jack Petrash combines a love for children with his love for the game of baseball to give fathers, or fathers-to-be, a new perspective on raising children.

Covering Home, Lessons on the Art of Fathering from the Game of Baseball

Parenting & Relationships

Petrash, Jack

Family Relationships

Robins Lane Press

Written by a teacher with more than 25 years of experience, this book offers a jargon-free view of Waldorf education and its philosophy of the importance of a three-dimensional education. Through learning experiences that involve all of the senses, children use a variety of intelligences to develop thought, feeling, and intentional, purposeful activity. Whether you're Waldorf parent or teacher, or you just want to learn more about these innovative educational concepts, this book contains important ideas on learning that you can apply today.

Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out

Parenting

Gryphon House

Written by a teacher with more than 25 years of experience, this book offers a jargon-free view of Waldorf education and its philosophy of the importance of a three-dimensional education. Through learning experiences that involve all of the senses, children use a variety of intelligences to develop thought, feeling, and intentional, purposeful activity. Whether you're Waldorf parent or teacher, or you just want to learn more about these innovative educational concepts, this book contains important ideas on learning that you can apply today.

Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out: Easyread Large Edition

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

ReadHowYouWant

Drawing on baseball’s rich history and traditions, this guide to effective fathering reveals the secret lessons of being a good father in anecdotes and allegories of the game. These insights speak to fathers in their own language and urge them to give themselves to their children the way a player gives himself to the game he loves; to look at every part of themselves to see how they can improve; to involve themselves in their children’s lives through activity, emotion, and awareness; and to have patience, especially with themselves. Written with insight, compassion, and wit, it offers support and guidance down the path of being successful, caring parents to their sons and daughters.

Covering Home

Willie Mays said that good players can play with their bodies, but great players play with their hearts and minds as well. The same is true for fathering. In Covering Home, author Jack Petrash combines a love for children with his love for the game of baseball to give fathers, or fathers-to-be, a new perspective on raising children.
From the first few pages of Covering Home…
There is a place where out passionate commitments converge, and it is there that fathering and baseball intertwine. The lessons that I have learned in one have instructed me in the other; how in fathering as in baseball you have to work on fundamentals, develop good habits, avoid errors, work on your control, and always keep in mind that you can't win them all…
In the busyness of modern times where both parents work and travel and go back to school, fathers are repeatedly covering home. Knowing when to cover home is essential. It requires knowledge of what should happen in a given situation but also an awareness of what could go wrong. Whether it's an overthrow, a passed ball, a snow day or a sick child, we need to be alert, as well as ready and willing to act…
Like baseball, fathering is a path of development…[It] will call on us to grow in ways we never imagined.

Covering Home: Lessons on the Art of Fathering from the Game of Baseball

Teachers themselves, and the styles they use in the classroom, are inevitably wide-ranging and unique. However, there are certain character traits that can be seen in the most effective teachers: dedication, flexibility, good humour and an openness to learn new things. Experienced Steiner-Waldorf teacher and teacher trainer Jack Petrash here offers his sensitive observations and insights into all aspects of teaching and being a teacher, as well as a lifelong learner. He shares a wealth of pedagogical insight which is both grounded in experience and which illustrates the sound principles of Waldorf education. Chapters include key areas for teachers such as developing good habits, the morning circle, working with parents, and the twelve-year change. Turning Lead into Gold provides light and insight for teachers, whether brand new to the vocation or experienced.

Turning Lead into Gold: The Transformative Alchemy of Waldorf Teaching

Bell Pond Books

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