So we are looking at Waldorf for our children. I have 5-year old twin girls who have not been in any school and we are considering Waldorf for them. We are a fairly crunchy family, but I don't think of us the crunchiest family around. I want to feel like we fit in with the community. This may sound like a silly question, but I am wondering if we would fit in at your Waldorf school.
My husband is a partner at a law firm and does corporate securities work. I am a stay at home Mom. I like to wear make up, though I do buy my make up mostly from Whole Foods, but you don't know that when you see me in lipstick. I don't look like the Waldorf teachers I saw at the school. Unless you saw me nursing my 2-1/2 year old, you'd probably think I was pretty mainstream.
My kids wear clothes that are made of natural fabrics, but they do not wear home-made clothing. They like clothing like Tea Collection brand that are comfortable and they consider them cute, but if I bought it for them, they'd love to wear things with sequins. One of my girls cares a lot about clothes and likes to look ""girlish" as she says. (Oddly enough, when she was 2 she insisted she was a boy and wore a baseball cap backwards every day.)
Though I am vegetarian, my kids are not. We do buy natural, grass-fed meat and all that. We do CSAs and shop at the farmer's market. I bake the bread we eat. My kids are insanely picky about what they eat. We do not eat a lot of processed foods, but my kids do get whole grain crackers now and then.
My kids' toys are mostly wood and natural fibers, though not specifically Waldorf toys. They have a Waldorf doll, but also have a Groovy Girl. I buy most of their toys at a Waldorf-inspired toy store. My son has a Bruder truck made of plastic that he loves. They also have a few Playmobil things that are plastic. They do watch TV, but I am okay with stopping. (They might not be so happy about it.) I only let them watch shows where the characters are sweet to each other and do not sell products, like Little Bear. They do not watch Disney. They are familiar with the princesses because of friends, though they only know the stories that accompany the princesses from fairy tales. Mostly I have used TV out of perceived necessity on my part, such as Monday when I had a 24 hour flu and could not get out of bed and my husband was working. I let them watch about 1-1/2 hours of TV so I could rest. But, like I said, I am fine with no TV.
I am not politically liberal. I'd probably describe myself as Libertarian. I am socially liberal, I suppose, in that I support same-sex marriage and reproductive rights.
I know I probably sound ridiculous, but I'd hate to choose a school where we feel ostracized. I know every school is different, but I just want to get a sense of how much outside of Waldorf mainstream we'd be. We are definitely open toward families who make different choices than we do and generally do not judge other people's choices.
My husband is a partner at a law firm and does corporate securities work. I am a stay at home Mom. I like to wear make up, though I do buy my make up mostly from Whole Foods, but you don't know that when you see me in lipstick. I don't look like the Waldorf teachers I saw at the school. Unless you saw me nursing my 2-1/2 year old, you'd probably think I was pretty mainstream.
My kids wear clothes that are made of natural fabrics, but they do not wear home-made clothing. They like clothing like Tea Collection brand that are comfortable and they consider them cute, but if I bought it for them, they'd love to wear things with sequins. One of my girls cares a lot about clothes and likes to look ""girlish" as she says. (Oddly enough, when she was 2 she insisted she was a boy and wore a baseball cap backwards every day.)
Though I am vegetarian, my kids are not. We do buy natural, grass-fed meat and all that. We do CSAs and shop at the farmer's market. I bake the bread we eat. My kids are insanely picky about what they eat. We do not eat a lot of processed foods, but my kids do get whole grain crackers now and then.
My kids' toys are mostly wood and natural fibers, though not specifically Waldorf toys. They have a Waldorf doll, but also have a Groovy Girl. I buy most of their toys at a Waldorf-inspired toy store. My son has a Bruder truck made of plastic that he loves. They also have a few Playmobil things that are plastic. They do watch TV, but I am okay with stopping. (They might not be so happy about it.) I only let them watch shows where the characters are sweet to each other and do not sell products, like Little Bear. They do not watch Disney. They are familiar with the princesses because of friends, though they only know the stories that accompany the princesses from fairy tales. Mostly I have used TV out of perceived necessity on my part, such as Monday when I had a 24 hour flu and could not get out of bed and my husband was working. I let them watch about 1-1/2 hours of TV so I could rest. But, like I said, I am fine with no TV.
I am not politically liberal. I'd probably describe myself as Libertarian. I am socially liberal, I suppose, in that I support same-sex marriage and reproductive rights.
I know I probably sound ridiculous, but I'd hate to choose a school where we feel ostracized. I know every school is different, but I just want to get a sense of how much outside of Waldorf mainstream we'd be. We are definitely open toward families who make different choices than we do and generally do not judge other people's choices.
I was worried at first if I would fit in - although I knew dd would.
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