Friday, November 18, 2011

Montessori for Infants

“The baby’s fundamental need – precisely because he is a human being – is to be loved. But it takes a mature person to love a baby, because love takes time, love takes patience, love takes fortitude, love even requires a certain kind of humility: to love another better than one’s self. The baby needs time to be understood: he needs time in everything he does.”


It is the parents’ responsibility to learn how they must grow because the baby is born already knowing how to grow. It’s a built-in gift of human nature.


It is the baby’s emotional development that should be dearest to the hearts of mothers and fathers. The parent must be devoted to the ‘total child’.


Four sensitive periods of infant development: 


Sensitive Period for Movement



Sensitive Period for Sensory Perception



Sensitive Period for Language



Sensitive Period for Order