"Walking The Tightrope With Young Adolescents"

Noted Waldorf educator and author, Betty Staley, will discuss "Walking the Tightrope with Young Adolescents" on Thursday, March 1 at 8:00 p.m. in Bonner Hall at the Waldorf School of Garden City. Admission is $5 and is open to the public.

Betty Staley will discuss ways in which parents and teachers can meet their youngsters to help them navigate this period in a healthy and constructive way. The years between eleven and fourteen are challenging times. They can be compared to walking a tight rope over a chasm. Is the rope taut enough? Does the tightrope walker have the necessary balance? Will a strong wind blow him or her off and into the chasm below? Parents often feel they are also the ones on the tightrope, and the winds blowing in from our society are turbulent and unpredictable.

Director of the Waldorf High School Teacher Training Program at the Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks, California, Staley is the author of Between Form and Freedom: A Practical Guide to the Teenage Years (Hawthorn Press, 1990), Hear the voice of the griot!: A guide to African geography, history, and culture (Rudolf Steiner College Press, 1997), Tapestries: Weaving Life's Journey (Hawthorn Press 1998) and Adolescence, The Sacred Passage (Rudolf Steiner College Press 2006). She brings over forty years of teaching at the kindergarten, elementary, high school and teacher training levels.

Located along Cambridge Avenue, adjacent to the Adelphi University campus, the Waldorf School of Garden City is a college preparatory day school teaching early childhood through Grade 12. For more information about the school, please call (516) 742-3434 ext. 129, or visit www.waldorfgarden.org. The school will also host an Open House to the public on Sunday, March 4, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. as well as a Summer Program Open House from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.