Posts Tagged Maria Montesori
Stamping Out Praise
“The prize and the punishments are incentives toward unnatural or forced effort, and, therefore, we cannot speak of the natural development of the child in connection with them…Punishments! I have not realized they were an indispensable institution holding sway over the whole of child humanity. All men have grown up under this humiliation.” Maria Montessori, Childhood Education
More on the subject of rewards, praise, and punishments in an interview with Alfie Kohn.
FreeRangeKids- Parents of Kids who Get Too Many Bruises May Be Charged with Neglect
- Onward to the NEW Free-Range Kids Site! It’s at www.freerangekids.com !
- To Keep Kids “Injury-Free” School Substitutes Wii for Recess
- An After-school Provider Laments the Crazy Rules
- Want to Help Out at a Class Party? All You Need to do is Get Fingerprinted!
- ParentsTrailing the School Bus (and Other Back-to-School Excesses)
- Can We Vote for This Guy? (Even Though He’s 9?)
- She Looked Up and Her 2-year-old Wasn’t There
- “Only Bad Parents Make Their Kids WALK to School”
- Shameless Purell
- Life Without School
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- Relaxed Homeskool
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- Teacher Tom
- Clean Up Time Without Bossing the Kids Around
- Treating Children Like People Rather than Their Challenging Behavior
- They Taught Themselves
- She Would Have Just As Soon Continued Wondering
- The Magic Circle of Play
- The Best World We've Ever Made
- If It Isn't Purposeless, It Isn't Play
- Littlewood's Law
- "The Mind at Three Miles Per Hour"
- Our Schools Have a Boredom Problem
- 5 Lives
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K-2 Punks 