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“A child will flourish if there is a regular rhythm between the will working during the day when it is awake and the will building up the growing organism in sleep. Then the body can become that instrument for which the child was already longing before birth.”

(Norbert Glas, p. 76)

Renate Long-Breipohl 

This article arose from a lecture given at the Vital Years Conference in Sydney in July 2003.The conference dealt with the qualities of the young child and how educators can meet them and nurture them. This lecture marked the end of the conference with a look at issues of the debate on the modern child.