by Matthew Rich | Communication, Discipline, Family Resources, MFA, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Grandparenting, Montessori Parenting, Montessori Teachers, Parent Education
An article on Discipline without Violence There are many instances in Dr. Montessori’s work where she explains why she “eventually…gave up either punishing or rewarding the children”.(1) She explains that this method is “always a form of repression”(2), and is based upon our – in her opinion tragically erroneous – belief that children “come into […]
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by Matthew Rich | Discipline, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Teachers, Psychology
The pre-eminent psychologist, Mihaly Csikszenthihalyi’s, famous inquiries into the psychology of ‘optimal experience’ have reshaped the way in which many disciplines – from sport to business management – look at concentration. His theory has explored a deeply satisfying state of consciousness, which he calls flow. I believe that this theory has much to offer to […]
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by Matthew Rich | MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Parenting, Montessori Teachers
chools are strange places, don’t you think? We gather children together in this homogenous group, which in no way represents the diversity of real life (we divide them by age, and sometimes even by ability or gender), and then require an adult to make them do things that they don’t want to do “for their […]
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