Eugene Schwartz

Today’s children are an endangered species. As a result of the reductionism
spawned by Freud and the homogenization of the stages of human life that
followed, many children seem to have lost their childhood and been thrust
into the confusing and chaotic world of adults. 

Eugene Schwartz presents an incisive analysis of the ways in which the errors
of the first third of our century have come back to haunt us at the century’s
end. After carefully examining Sigmund Freud’s tragic misunderstanding of
childhood and tracing its consequences for today’s parents and educators,
the author points to the radically new paradigm of childhood development
offered by Rudolf Steiner and embodied in Waldorf education. 

Parents, teachers, and child psychologists will find a wealth of insight concerning
such diverse subjects as the nature of play, the causes of ADHD, computers
as teachers, and the power that love and imagination will have in the education
of the Millennial Child.