Happy Friday, everyone. Here’s a common concern amongst parents and educators: How do I get a child to do things that they dislike? Children need to develop inner discipline, the thought goes, and life does indeed involve at least occasionally doing unpleasant things. We train a child’s capacity for inner discipline by training her capacity to do things she doesn’t want to do. One of the questions most commonly raised about Montessori, a highly child-centered approach, is: how it can accommodate the need to develop inner discipline, to make the unpleasant effort, given that it is based on the child’s choices and interests?
The unpleasant effort
The unpleasant effort
The unpleasant effort
Happy Friday, everyone. Here’s a common concern amongst parents and educators: How do I get a child to do things that they dislike? Children need to develop inner discipline, the thought goes, and life does indeed involve at least occasionally doing unpleasant things. We train a child’s capacity for inner discipline by training her capacity to do things she doesn’t want to do. One of the questions most commonly raised about Montessori, a highly child-centered approach, is: how it can accommodate the need to develop inner discipline, to make the unpleasant effort, given that it is based on the child’s choices and interests?