Stories and Music

Episode 136 of the The Secret Kindergarten | For Young Children podcast, hosted by Gino Volante, titled "Stories and Music" was published on December 15, 2025 and runs 25 minutes.

December 15, 2025 ·25m · The Secret Kindergarten | For Young Children

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Summary

Outside of play, stories are the modality for teaching, instruction and explaining things to young children. Let's read more stories aloud for the children!"But one thing children at this age cannot do is follow explanations; they have no understanding for this at all. If a teacher tries to explain the subjects during the first school years, the children will react by becoming blunted and dull. This approach simply does not work. On the other hand, everything will go smoothly if, rather than explaining the subject matter, one forms the content into a story, if words are painted with mental images, and if rhythm is brought into one’s whole way of teaching." - Excerpt from Rudolf Steiner's Lecture Five of The Child's Changing Consciousness, Donarch, April 19, 1923.MusicNancy Stewart of https://nancymusic.com/Bed Tracks and Other Audio“Children Theme” by Denys KyshchukFrom freemusicarchive.orgAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)Music by Denys Kyshchuk: https://www.audiocoffee.net/https://soundcloud.com/deniskino“Cheer Up” by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoonAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/The Secret Kindergarten is live every Saturday 2.00pm-3.00pm Eastern Time on Revolution Radio (Studio A): https://www.revolution.radio/.https://thesecretkindergarten.com/For any questions or comments: [email protected] my work: https://thesecretkindergarten.com/about-and-contact/#donations-link.

Episode Description

Outside of play, stories are the modality for teaching, instruction and explaining things to young children. Let's read more stories aloud for the children!

"But one thing children at this age cannot do is follow explanations; they have no understanding for this at all. If a teacher tries to explain the subjects during the first school years, the children will react by becoming blunted and dull. This approach simply does not work. On the other hand, everything will go smoothly if, rather than explaining the subject matter, one forms the content into a story, if words are painted with mental images, and if rhythm is brought into one’s whole way of teaching." - Excerpt from Rudolf Steiner's Lecture Five of The Child's Changing Consciousness, Donarch, April 19, 1923.

Music
Nancy Stewart of https://nancymusic.com/

Bed Tracks and Other Audio
“Children Theme” by Denys Kyshchuk
From freemusicarchive.org
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Music by Denys Kyshchuk: https://www.audiocoffee.net/
https://soundcloud.com/deniskino

“Cheer Up” by Keys of Moon | https://soundcloud.com/keysofmoon
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Music promoted by https://www.chosic.com/free-music/all/

The Secret Kindergarten is live every Saturday 2.00pm-3.00pm Eastern Time on Revolution Radio (Studio A): https://www.revolution.radio/.

https://thesecretkindergarten.com/

For any questions or comments: [email protected]
Support my work: https://thesecretkindergarten.com/about-and-contact/#donations-link.