The child sees the same action repeated at the same time every day in the same way. This attracts his attention. Children have a sense of the...
Then leave the child to repeat the exercise twenty or thirty times. I have heard that, in some cases, children may even repeat it two hundred times...
It is often not enough for children to do a thing once or twice, but they will perform the same simple action over and over again until they seem to...
Especially then, when the child’s need of activity was not understood, any mother would have said: ‘Now you are clean, that is enough, stop’. But...
We dealt with the matter of teaching them to comb their hair and to dress themselves. This was indeed an enormous success. Having learned to button...
Then certain little facts happened which impressed me. For example, the children showed a very great love for cleanliness. They had been taught by us...
The child does not follow the law of the least effort, but a law directly contrary. He uses an immense amount of energy over an unsubstantial end, and...
The child feels the need to repeat this exercise not in order to perfect his performance but in order to build up his own inner being, and the time...
The little child who persists in his exercises, concentrated and absorbed, is obviously elaborating the constant man, the man of character, he who...
Pagination
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