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Limits – Tools to Freedom
Limits – the tools to freedom Maria Montessori said that the opportunity to act freely within limits is the key to normal development and opens the door to inner freedom. She said: “We cannot make a man good, we can only help him to make himself.” For many of us,...
Raising a Montessori Child at Home – Part 5: Experience before language and the overuse of ‘no’
The journey from murmuring to blabbering to talking is a joyful experience. Children learn to talk by observing and hearing us talk. That means they absorb language by listening to us and watching our lips move. As soon as they start talking, we tend to teach them new...
Raising a Montessori Child at Home – Part 4: Respect and Confidence
We always focus on giving as much love as we can to our children, but they also want to be respected. What I...
Raising a Montessori Child at Home – Part 3: Freedom and Independence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MtP8vuVoS4 Being free and independent is the goal for every human being. When we try to help and protect our children in every step without letting them try, fail or fall, we are giving them a feeling of incapability and we are...
Raising a Montessori Child at Home – Part 2: The Environment
Giving an obstacle-free environment is very important when the child is developing his movement which starts from turning, to crawling, to...
Raising a Montessori Child at Home – Part 1: The Child’s Needs
My son recently turned 2 years old, and I am taking this opportunity to thank Maria Montessori because of whom I am feeling proud to raise my...
Montessori and Creativity
People sometimes say Montessori is too rigid. They say that the materials have to be used in a certain way and children are restricted in their creative expression by virtue of that. I have always wondered about this. I struggle with allowing freedom for the use of...
Needs, Struggles and Peace
What is a child’s need? Have we ever thought about it? When needs of young children arise and they express them by crying, we as adults assume what they need without much observation or consideration. We take control and do not allow the child to try to meet his or...
Valuing Morality in Education
“Moral Education is the source of that spiritual equilibrium on which everything else depends and which may be compared to that physical equilibrium or sense of balance, without which it is impossible to stand upright or to move into any other position.” – Maria...