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.
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.
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