Montessori Child Development Stages
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The first essential for the child's development is concentration. |
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| Above are two charming YouTube videos created by a young mother who used the principles, and materials, described in The Joyful Child, (by Susan Stephenson) such as floor bed, small table and chair, small silverware, apron, even the vegetable cards made from paintings by Susan Stephenson, hung at the child's level in the kitchen as art work and vocabulary lessons. She has created a home environment that supports her child's independence, wisdom, and optimum development. We applaud her efforts. | While Susan was interviewing the mother, aunt, grandmother, of Resa in Bhutan, someone spilled water. The older sister brought a cloth in from the kitchen to clean it up and Resa reached for it. The she began to clean up the spill. Realizing that I was taking a picture with my still digital camera the mother told Resa to look up at the camera. Resa said "No, I will not look up!" The adults appreciated that fact that their including children in the everyday activities of the family is something valued in Montessori education. See the BHUTAN BIRTH-3 link above for more pictures and text that were a result of this interview. |
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GENERAL MONTESSORI INFORMATION ADOLESCENTS LEARNING ABOUT PARENTING |
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A child first learns to UNDRESS and practices undressing over and over again. Eventually, in his own time he will learn to DRESS himself. One of the greatest gifts we can give at this stage is to not interrupt the child's important work, and to manage to give him time. Repetition is the key to the child's development and only the child knows how many times he needs to do this with each attempt. The video shows a little girl (19 months) in an Infant Community connected with the AMI teacher training course for birth to three: 0-3 course |
—Growing Up— |
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When a child is loved and respected for who she is from birth, instead of being trained and pruned to what adults think she should be, there is no limit to the kind of compassionate, creative, problem-solving adult will result. Severn Cullis-Suzuki was born in Vancouver, Canada, where she attended a Montessori school. At the age of nine, she founded the Environmental Children's Organization (ECO), a group of children dedicated to learning and teaching other youngsters about environmental issues, and in 1992, at the age of 12, raised money with members of ECO, to attend the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, where she was applauded for delivering the above speech to the delegates. This video has since become known as "The Girl Who Silenced the World for 6 Minutes". more | ||||
