Simone Davies
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1,174 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2016
last heard Oct 2022
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rather than top down learning, you know, in a house is not just a dictatorship, me telling you all the time what you need to do, but really working together with your child.
And I really loved the interview with Alfie Cohen that you had because I love all of the unconditional parenting ideas.
It really is similar.
How can we engage their cooperation and nurture their cooperation?
sometimes you're going to get resistance and, you know, fight.
But if they're actually you give them choices or they feel involved in the process or, um, yeah, you really want to do this and I want to do that and how can we find a way to work together, you often get much more cooperation in a much more peaceful way and without you getting stressed as well.
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Earlier I mentioned that the Montessori teacher is often called a guide and I like to think of a parent in that way as well because a guide will step in and stop you if you're, you know, crossing the boundaries, but they also can give you a lot of freedom.
We don't also take it personally because we're not their boss.
We're just stepping in to guide them and to support them where they're at.
Yeah, that's a perfect example.
So I can imagine two children fighting and traditionally you'd come in and say, Okay guys, you can't fight anymore and you know, you just get really angry or you might blame someone or you put you punish them, you put them into timeout, and you decide what the punishment is.
And in a Montessori approach, we're guiding them and we're kind of like I see two really angry children.
If they're physically about to hurt themselves, then you'd be like, I can't let you hurt yourself.
Like it's my job to keep you
safe and we're gonna you know separate.
But if in a low level situation where they're just uh pulling at things and arguing a lot
And be like, I see two angry children, it looks like you want that toy and it looks like you want the same toy.
And I'd be there to support them.
I'm not going to say you need to give it back, you need to take sides, because then you think about the relationship that happens in your child's head.
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