movement – Montessori Granny

Following the child?

Never mind, you get on my back and we will both get there. The child does not want “to get there” the child wants to walk, but his legs are disproportionate in size to ours and disproportionate to the size of his body, so we must not make the child to follow us, we must follow the child. The need to follow the child is clearly demonstrated here, we must remember that it is the rule of all education of children in all fields. (Absorbent Mind –chapter 15 – Development and Imitation)

On the Move

Child development Posted by Montessori Granny

Beginning to Crawl At the same time as Poppy was looking for opportunities to climb trees, her sister Willow embarked on the initial moves necessary towards crawling. Over the past three weeks, just as she turned six months, she has started to pull herself up on all fours – this momentary movement took huge amount of…