{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 304/1921-09-26/p067","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"RUDOLF STEINER:  \nThe expression “a nervous child” is extremely ambiguous. Thus, it is impossible to give definite directives. One must have a clear description of the child’s symptoms and one needs to know the age of the child. In such a case, one really must be able to consider all the relevant factors within the general context. For instance, it might happen that one is shown a child, let us say, three or four years old, who is extremely fidgety and likely to romp about wildly. There are such children. They throw themselves to the ground and go into terrible tantrums. Their behavior is distinctly discomfiting for the parents who may thereby suffer a great deal of unhappiness. Then they ask what they could possibly do with such a child. Often, though by no means in every case, one would like to ask them to do nothing at all, for the worst thing in such a situation is to suppress the symptoms. Such a child simply has to get rid of an overabundance of energy so that, later on, it may develop normally—as one might put it. It is sometimes necessary to point out that it is better not to meddle with a child’s development by taking pedagogical measures. The important thing is to find out from the child’s overall constitution what is or is not beneficial in each individual case. The same thing applies when one considers conditions of health or illness. How often does one hear these or similar remarks from persons with fixed ideas of what is normal, “If someone’s pulse beat is irregular, one has to cure it by this or the other means.” That might be perfectly correct in many instances but is by no means so in every case. Some people, due to their general constitution, actually need a slightly abnormal pulse! And so also in this case. One must know the overall constitution of a child before one can make definite statements. As always, anthroposophy aims to free people from living with abstract ideas. Such a question as “How should one deal with a nervous child?” is an abstraction. One is never confronted by a general situation, but always by a particular child who needs to be dealt with individually.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"III. Knowledge of Health and Illness in Education","site_heading":null,"date":"1921-09-26","location":null,"word_count":377,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/304/1921-09-26/p067","alignment_confidence":"low","alignment_reason":"count_diverges","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"René M. 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Dann fragen sie: Was soll man eigentlich mit diesem Kinde tun? - Man möchte dann oftmals, nicht immer, aber oftmals bitten, nun ja nichts zu tun, denn das schlimmste was man tun kann, ist, etwas zutun und das Kind nicht austoben zu lassen; denn das Kind muß nämlich eine gewisse Summe von Energie loswerden auf diese Art, um eben später gerade in normaler Weise, wie man so sagen kann, sich zu entwickeln. Also oftmals ist es durchaus notwendig, aufmerksam darauf zu machen, daß man dieses Herumerziehen unterläßt, denn es handelt sich darum, daß man immer weiß aus der Gesamtkonstitution eines Menschen heraus, was im einzelnen für ihn gut ist.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":226,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/304/1921-09-26/p057"},{"locus":"GA 304/1921-09-26/p058","passage_number":58,"text":"So ist es ja, nicht wahr, wirklich auch bei gesunden und kranken Menschen als solchen. Wie sehr häufig erklären Leute, die immer den abstrakt-pedantischen Sinn der Normalität im Kopfe haben: der Mensch hat einen unregelmäßigen Pulsschlag oder so etwas, den muß man so und so kurieren. Gewiß, man muß es oftmals, aber oftmals eben nicht, weil der gerade nach seiner Gesamtkonstitution diesen Pulsschlag braucht! Und so auch hier; man muß das Kind in seiner gesamten Konstitution kennen, wenn man überhaupt etwas aussagen will, wie überhaupt Anthroposophie darauf ausgeht, die Menschen von Abstraktionen zu befreien. Es ist eine Abstraktion, wenn man sagt: Was soll man mit einem nervösen Kind machen? 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