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Attractive Home Spaces Designed With The Child in Mind

Posted: November 28, 2020

“…the tiny child’s absorbent mind finds all its nutriment in its surroundings. Here it has to locate itself, and build itself up from what it takes in. Especially at the beginning of life must we, therefore, make the environment as interesting and attractive as we can.” ~ Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind During an interview

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Prepared In The Kitchen for Practical Life

By Julie Mitaro

Posted: February 7, 2019

“But in our specially prepared environments we see them all at once fix themselves upon some task, and then their excited fantasies and their restless movements disappear altogether; a calm, serene child, attached to reality, begins to work out his elevation through work. Normalisation has been achieved.” ~ Maria Montessori, The Secret of Childhood Children love

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