It is the ‘valorisation’ of the personality, to become aware of ones own value. Without this, as many psychologists say, the child only feels his own...

So we realise that in order to develop the individual needs to display effort, to exercise himself and not be dependent on others. Now this...

We can see clearly what is necessary to give in order to help the child. It is to give the possibility of independence, of living together and...

As the child learns to handle the materials carefully his delight grows, and eventually he can be trusted to dust the cupboard with the fragile...

Harmonious relation between adult and child does not depend only on their loving each other. Rather, mutual understanding and love depend on whether...

When the child has acquired this independence his relation to the adult is changed. He is sweeter and calmer. He no longer lives under a repression...

The adult must not interfere, must not act instead of the child. Give him the means and let him act: his freedom consists of this.

Whenever possible, the child has a tendency to render himself independent of the help of others, especially of the adult. Then, in acquiring this...

If a child meets certain difficulties in his work the other children never spontaneously help him.... But if there is an accident when help is really...

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...