Rudolf Steiner generally presented traditional childhood diseases as signs, aids, trials, and accompanying symptoms of the natural process of a child's development and the maturation of their immune system.

It helps us understand the deeper significance and management of them in the context of human development.

Probably because vaccines to suppress these diseases were much less common and widespread in his time, he does not discuss them in detail. However, in the last excerpt, he does not fail to provide a particularly important warning for the future.