Posted by Chip on January 2, 2008
Our children’s emotional, social, physical and cognitive growth has as its ultimate goal mature independence for life. “Mature independence” is acquired in small steps over time, day by day, month by month, year by year. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog [...]
Categories: Teachers & Teaching, Thinking Developmentally |
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Posted by Chip on December 18, 2007
During the frantic holiday season let’s pause once in a while to watch the children in their moments of sheer joy beyond the moment of opening gifts or our viewing them through the lens of a digital camera. We see the word JOY everywhere during the holidays. After all, it rhymes with …__ __ __, [...]
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Posted by Chip on November 27, 2007
All of a sudden you notice that your happy and friendly five-year -ld is acting cranky and oppositional and is sometimes downright defiant. You, of course, are the same loving parent or teacher, but your patience is running thin. What to do? It’s important to remember that children’s approaches to the world between the ages [...]
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Posted by Chip on October 26, 2007
Because I was speaking to parents at a Boston Montessori School this week about developmental stages of growth, I re-read one of my favorite texts, Dr. Montessori’s own Handbook, first published in 1914. (Schocken Books, 1965) In the introduction to that volume, Nancy McCormick Rambusch of New York Foundling Hospital noted some of the key [...]
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Posted by Chip on October 23, 2007
Perhaps the greatest joys of being parents are the small moments of watching and listening to what our children are doing and saying around the house when they are playing with us, cooking with us, setting the table and doing other chores with us. Also, we delight watching them at soccer or dance, tackling an [...]
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