Adolescence, the period between fourteen and twenty-one years, is a challenging time for both parents and children. This comprehensive book contains a collection of helping and insightful comments and writings that Rudolf Steiner made about adolescence. The collection is wide-ranging and often demonstrates how Steiner approached the same topic from different perspectives. It includes Steiner's thoughts on the seven to fourteen year phase leading up to adolescence.

Children create our future with their gifts and talents, yet what does childhood mean for us today? Is childhood vanishing under the impact of poverty, commercialism, stress, social breakdown and hot housing? And, given such threats to childhood, how can we create a healthy world for bringing up children?