“The child’s nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.” — Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind, p. 83. I taught a parenting class once where I asked the…
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“Special care should be shown for the psychic life of the newborn child. If it already has such a life at birth, how much greater will this be as it…
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“It was really a very simple thing, after — it was only that he had lived near a kind and gentle heart, and had been taught to think kind thoughts…
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I recently came across a surprising article about a parent who didn’t want their children to do any chores around the house. In the article, Meredith Carroll states “I’d…
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“It follows that at the beginning of his life the individual can accomplish wonders — without effort and quite unconsciously.” — Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind, p. 59. Just as…
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