Before Krampus» arrival in the film, director Michael Dougherty presents Max's idyllic family home, where he is surrounded by kind -
hearted parents named Tom (Adam Scott) and Sarah (Toni Collette) and a now - preoccupied sister named Beth (Stefania LaVie Owen), and his quiet but kind - hearted grandmother, Omi (Krista Stadler).
The founding
parents named the school to commemorate the gifts of clarity of thinking, warm -
hearted humanity and moral courage which Alan Howard, a long - time Waldorf teacher from England, brought to the birth of Waldorf education in Canada.