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Montessori at Home: Fundamental Principles All Parents Should Know About Montessori Education
One of the best and useful occurrences in the education world was the birth of the Montessori Method to classrooms. Its advent was a long-awaited response to the need for a functional and focused education method. If you understand the importance of raising children the right way and grooming them with the right method, you will appreciate the effectiveness of Montessori above all other methods used in school.
This book additionally gives many inspirational and motivational activities to enhance the creative skills of a child. Early childhood mastering activities should be beneficial, informative and meaningful enough to increase the motivational level of a toddler, so he or she may be discovered in an extra subtle and interesting manner.
You will learn
-concepts of the montessori method
-importance of cooperation
-the role of parents in the montessori style of learning
-cognitive development materials
-your montessori style of spaces
-how the montessori school can be achieved
-montessori activities to try at home
-self-discovery through montessori
-helping your toddler with aggression and tantrums
-the importance of montessori education for children
-assimilating montessori concepts at home
-and much more
This book additionally gives many inspirational and motivational activities to enhance the creative skills of a child. Early childhood mastering activities should be beneficial, informative and meaningful enough to increase the motivational level of a toddler, so he or she may be discovered in an extra subtle and interesting manner.
You will learn
-concepts of the montessori method
-importance of cooperation
-the role of parents in the montessori style of learning
-cognitive development materials
-your montessori style of spaces
-how the montessori school can be achieved
-montessori activities to try at home
-self-discovery through montessori
-helping your toddler with aggression and tantrums
-the importance of montessori education for children
-assimilating montessori concepts at home
-and much more
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Published April 27, 2020
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January 2, 2021
I added this to goodreads myself to make sure I can tell you not to read it, which feels weird and petty? I'm just! really passionate about Montessori education and the idea of someone curious starting here and forming their opinion off of this mess makes me sincerely upset.
Author seems to have a glancing understanding or bonkers interpretation of Montessori principles, using bewilderingly unnecessary authoritarian directives. There's a whole section of absolutes- you must always, you must never, if you x child will y - which makes it sound like parents are programming a robot child, and also are robots themselves. It leaves out the humanity and joy and creativity inherent to Montessori, which provides lots of concrete ideas and tools, but which is fundamentally humanistic, and understands deeply that people living together and caring for each other must do the work of understanding, compassion, patience, accommodation, and growth, and which both respects the capacities, and forgives the fallibilities, of kids and adults. The language in this book is as parental-shame generating as the great midcentury classics of parenting advice.
Also, and this matters less, but still - at a sentence level this book is just really badly written. Clonking and disorienting syntax, and many misused words. Once again lost in a sentence, then mentally retrofitting the near cognate that made it work, I began to wonder if the author might not be a native English speaker. If so they would be better served by writing fluidly and comfortably and then working with a translator, but I would avoid anything about Montessori from this source, regardless.
Author seems to have a glancing understanding or bonkers interpretation of Montessori principles, using bewilderingly unnecessary authoritarian directives. There's a whole section of absolutes- you must always, you must never, if you x child will y - which makes it sound like parents are programming a robot child, and also are robots themselves. It leaves out the humanity and joy and creativity inherent to Montessori, which provides lots of concrete ideas and tools, but which is fundamentally humanistic, and understands deeply that people living together and caring for each other must do the work of understanding, compassion, patience, accommodation, and growth, and which both respects the capacities, and forgives the fallibilities, of kids and adults. The language in this book is as parental-shame generating as the great midcentury classics of parenting advice.
Also, and this matters less, but still - at a sentence level this book is just really badly written. Clonking and disorienting syntax, and many misused words. Once again lost in a sentence, then mentally retrofitting the near cognate that made it work, I began to wonder if the author might not be a native English speaker. If so they would be better served by writing fluidly and comfortably and then working with a translator, but I would avoid anything about Montessori from this source, regardless.
September 18, 2024
I think it was a good introduction for me to the Montessori method. I hadn’t read anything about it before although I knew a bit about it already. I have a few textbooks that I want to read so this was more of a side read about this subject. It did put things into perspective for what it is about. Also, I thought the choice of the ending chapters was a bit weird- I felt like I missed something and it didn’t sum up the material in any way. All in all, though it was interesting to me!
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July 21, 2023The writing felt very theoretical to me. Another reviewer commented that this book is full absolutes (“As a parent, you must always…”, “You cannot…”), and that is very true! The absolutism made me wonder how much experience this author has, and it made me trust this book less.
March 31, 2023
Too generic to almost any first two chapters of any other montessori books
May 12, 2023
Para alguien principiante en este tema, este libro va muy bien, cubre varios principios montessori de manera muy general y te da mucha amplitud sobre que aspecto se debe profundizar.
December 30, 2023
Meh. There was some useful things here and there but mainly this book had a lot of info I’ve read elsewhere and was a very surface level read about Montessori.
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