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[quote=Anonymous]There are many things I liked about the Montessori experience for our eldest and it was certainly better than many other full day preschools which had poor food, TV, no control in the classroom, time outs, and poor curriculum, but I just can't continue to by sympathetic when I constantly hear from my Montessori parent friends that their child isn't "choosing harder work". There is a reason little children don't often choose hard work for themselves. They aren't sure how to do many things yet and it is intimidating to do new things much less teach yourself how to do something on your own. Children need to be taught a new subject before they grow to love it and "choose" it on their own. If only the schools would realize that they should teach new things well at first (not just introduce it once or twice) and then give children room to explore I'd be up for going through it again provided there was more instruction for free play as well. I love the materials and some of the discipline methods, but my DC also had social issues as a result of the Montessori experience that we've had to correct with much of our own effort and are now looking at alternatives for our second.[/quote]
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