Montessori for Babies: A Complete Beginner's Guide
Montessori is a 150-year-old method of education that is growing around the world to this day. Its founder, Dr. Maria Montessori, was a ...
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To better understand how babies are capable, we must acknowledge the <anchor>human tendencies</anchor> that Montessori wrote about. These are natural drives we all have, such as our most basic need for safety. But there are more that we experience from birth: orientation, association with others, communication, exploration. Our babies are biologically wired to adapt to their surroundings by acting on these drives that help them make sense of the world.
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Excerpt: “Dr. Maria Montessori had the intuition of the fact that one of the first tendencies of the newborn child is to build something within himself which enables him not only to put himself in relation with his surroundings, but which, for the rest of his life, acts as sort of an inner compass related to all sorts of things including that other tendency which embodies one of the most powerful urges of man and helps him to find whatever he requires to satisfy his needs: exploration.”

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