However, there were a couple passages that I found particularly disturbing.įirst, she claims that a short attention span is very common for pampered, wealthy children. This is the one reference I’ve found that actually seems to view my children’s complete inability to sleep as much as normal kids as a positive trait. Overall, I think Montessori had a very beautiful view of children and childhood and thought they were deserving of respect, love, understanding, and compassion. However, because I wanted to better understand her expectations, I read this book, which she gave me.
I don’t think my son has an attention span problem, but I will believe that he would rather do something once, put it away and do something else than do the same thing over and over as is customary of Montessori students.Īdmitting that I’m a biased parent, my belief is that he just hasn’t found anything interesting enough to hold his attention for long periods of time like his teacher expects. However, I was determined to get through it since my 3 year old son is in a Montessori preschool and according to his teacher, has “difficulty focusing”. The original work was written nearly a century ago in Italian. Review: This book was a difficult to read.
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