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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Well, I think really important and fundamental to the Montessori approach is that we accept every child for the child that they are, um, as opposed to, you know, often as a parent we want something for their child.
It might be as silly as like that we want them to grow up to be a famous footballer or a movie star or something like this, or maybe it's just that you wish that you had an experience for yourself as a child, and so then you really want that for your child.
And really Montessori strips it back.
And she was a scientist before a doctor before she went into education.
And so her skills of observation, she put then into an educational environment where she looked at children in a very objective way.
So a scientist, for example, says a plant grew five centimeters towards the window.
He doesn't say the plant's growing beautifully or it's flourishing or it's a terrible plant or that plant should turn into a cactus.
You know, it's really just this is a plant and it's
it's growing towards the window.
So I love that when we look at children in this way too, you don't when a child walks into my classroom I don't think, oh well last week that they were really naughty or
last week, um, they're such a bright kid and so we just look at the child with fresh eyes every day and accepting them for who they are.
And I don't know if you have any friends who really just look you in the eye and accept you for who you are without any judgment.
But the child feels so accepted for who they that they can just flourish in this environment.
And so we really try and pass this on to parents as well is like
Let's try and also look at our children sometimes objectively, because sometimes we know our children too well.
And we I practice observation exercises with the people who come to my classes because the parents come with their children to my classes.
And um I say, imagine that you've never met Asher before.
So now write down everything you see these Asher do.
And all of a sudden they're actually amazed for all the things they're doing, as opposed to, you know, we can't see everything.
So it makes us more alert to what they're actually capable of.
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