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Basic principles underlying the “Here you can thrive” campaign of the Working Group Pregnancy – Birth – Early Childhood of the Medical and Pedagogical Sections at the Goetheanum

Christoph Meinecke, Karin Michael

Many parents, grandparents, educators, teachers and doctors are wondering what impact the current pandemic will have on the health of children. 

Here we want to show why it is especially important now to focus on the basic needs of children that are always present, regardless of whether there is a pandemic, and whose fulfillment is a prerequisite for a healthy and successful childhood. By recognizing what many children are suffering from, as well as why others are instead thriving and recovering under the pandemic, we will better understand what our children need, especially today. And this is what we must give them, so that they can grow up to be healthy, empowered, educated and energetic people.

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Anthromedics is published by the Medical Section of the School of Spiritual Science, the International Coordination of Anthroposophic Medicine in Dornach, Switzerland, and the Association of Anthroposophic Physicians in Germany (GAÄD).