A day facing the Montessori classroom, is a day facing God.

I try my best not to encourage senseless behavior.
Listening to our thoughts before we say them helps us be kinder.
It's not hard, try it.
There are two major causes of discord:

Senseless Behavior, Level One:
This is the impulsive brain of someone who is immature and unwise. It's fine to experiment, but this action can range for a loud sound in the classroom to putting others in danger, and yourself by doing something that is not thought out and results in destruction bringing discord.
Interacting in this situation, we pause, breathe and go for it.
Explain halting.
Explain the object to not touch and why, say "Sharp _____." "Dangerous _____."
Explain what we must do  to be careful and play and learn for the self and others.
Gentle mind, gentle results.

Violent Behavior, Level Two:
Actions done through senseless thoughts causing violent behavior. Think of one done through the former.
Interacting in this situation we pause and watch for a sign of pain or the person hit saying a message, and the other apologizing. If all of these are not met, we breathe, step in.
"Listen to me."
"We are all friends here, and we do not hurt our friends with our hands."
"We keep out hands on our own bodies when we feel angry."
"When we touch we do so kindly."
"We use gentle hands, gentle words. What gentle words do we say now to each other?"
"Was there a message one of us wanted to say?"

"Everyone has a vital role in this team. We protect. Our hands are gentle, our words are gentle."

"It's okay to feel anger, but it's better to walk away, and keep our hands off our friends and our words out of their ears."

Gentle Learning, Gentle Children
Montessori style classrooms based around the motto, "We are gentle here and there, we are gentle everywhere."

What happened to "live and let live?" A child is not a monument, a lab subject, or a child, really. A child is an adult in training, a bright, intelligent life form, full of a world we could hardly attempt to imagine. Children know when something's funny, when they're being mean, when they're being defensive. Just like any adult.struggling myself with roughness from birth, I was a rough child with a rough family. And the rough world we live in can make us harder than we are on the inside. Put your reptile mind to rest, and take up a little faith in the word, "Gentle."

When children understand that adults are gentle beings, they understand that they are gentle beings. They observe, capture and create what they see. They're Experimental Artists, and that is the most creative mind, taking what one sees and transmuting it with your mood and uniqueness. When we meditate, breath, create, listen, engage, and encourage children in a meditative, compassionate voice with intention and not direction unless absolutely necessary, we reach a higher state of being. We are doing what we are here to do, help others, create peace.

I am not discouraged by children or adults in the Montessori classroom of today, but enlightened. We are all educators, we are all capable of expressing in love and compassion, when we forget our worries in that moment, and be there for yourself and the children.

My book Gentle Learning, Gentle Children will explore the hypothesis

If we reach out to children in a gentle manner, and give them gentle tools to help them learn  in a gentle manner, will we teach them to quell the ego and aggression inside themselves, and feel no need to hit, bite, scratch, or compete?

Let's explore our world, and the means we do so by.