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Sequence 40the child before he has made the first movement himself and has clearly shown that he wants to enter into contact with the… |
Sequence 41to move away (but only a few feet!) from the mother. Accepting this modest separation implies accepting the road that human… |
Sequence 42modest means. We should never forget that a giant tree grows from a tiny seed and a little water, earth, and sun. This life-… |
Sequence 43Another frequently made error is thaL of wanting to keep Lhe infant attached to you longer than necessary, either at the… |
Sequence 44ognize their own child. In reality, what the child is no longer accepting is our style of addressing him by continually… |
Sequence 45that the child will go out wearing whatever garment he chooses, even though we would have preferred the other one. In this… |
Sequence 46and shares in responsibilities. There is no difference in the psychological mechanism that decides between "biscuits… |
Sequence 47It is also very dangerous for the future of human beings to let children perceive that life is always a conflict and that,… |
Sequence 48continue its growth up to the last moment of life. With appropriate human mediation everything is possible. Crisis periods are… |
Sequence 49INTRODUCI10N DR. MARIA MONTESSORI AND TIIE CmLD THE CHILD AND TIIE AoULT Both Mario Montessori and Sofia Cavalletti connect… |
Sequence 50Dr. Mario Montessori 46 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 19, No. 2 • Spring 1994 |
Sequence 51DR. MAruA. MONTESSORI AND THE CHILO by Dr. Mario Montessori I hope that you are not going to be disillusioned by what I say.… |
Sequence 52in order to study medicine. At that time, a woman who went among men, and especially among naked bodies which she cut to… |
Sequence 53to it, drop it, and break it. Such was the child, and thus it was described by official psychology. So, there was Dr.… |
Sequence 54So we start with this group of children, belonging to that group of parents, and a positivist. The positivist was a scientist… |
Sequence 55to wh:11 was happening in ordinary life: There the children were disorderly, always leaving Lhings lying around, and the… |
Sequence 56unable to account for them. The only thing she had done was lo give them freedom, freedom to choose their tasks, and she had… |
Sequence 57perfect society touched this woman. And the positivist, who disbelieved in religion, continues: "One day, in great… |
Sequence 58The first lesson the child gives us is love. He has love in himself, and he knows how to arouse love in others. developing… |
Sequence 59We give far too much attention to the conscious, and hardly any to the unconscious. And yet, it is the unconscious which… |
Sequence 60were in a Catholic country, so it can be ascribed to the Catholic religion. But it happens in India, it happens in Africa, it… |
Sequence 61"Mother, when am I going to plll on this corsage thal you have?" In Italy these are often made with velvet,… |
Sequence 62was already filled with this respect for life. Obligations and religious feelings come into sight if we have the chance to… |
Sequence 63The NAMTA Joumal 59 |
Sequence 64A six-year-old's drawing of the Good Shepherd and sheep (lstituto Assunzione, Rome). 60 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. /9, No… |
Sequence 65THE CHil.D AND TIIE ADULT by Sofia Cavalletti 7be one who makes himself as little as this little eh ild is the greatest i:n… |
Sequence 66The essentiality of the child is perhaps the element that imposes the severest discipline on the adult. How many… |
Sequence 67creatures. "Listen, Israel ... "are words addressed to ancient Israel, which are still valid today in the… |
Sequence 68one who is open to listening, and who is not forgetful that one may speak only in the measure that one listens. This openness… |
Sequence 69highlighting the contrast between the solemn, aloof teacher who sits as one enthroned on high before an audience that hears… |
Sequence 70in speaking to the children about the greatest realities (how much difficulty we experience with the Mass!) because we were… |
Sequence 71The catechist's task is to create specific conditions so that this relationship may be established, but to withdraw as… |
Sequence 72References Albe rich, E. 0972). Natura e compiU di u.rza catechesi modenza. Torino-Leumann: LDC. Aquinas, St. T. (tr. 1941… |
Sequence 73INrRooucnoN BRIBES FOR BEHAVING "Good values have to be grown from the inside out," says A/fie Kohn in… |
Sequence 74Allie Kohn 70 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 19, No. 2 • Spring 1994 |
Sequence 75BRIBES FOR BEHAVING: WHY BEHAVIORISM DOESN'T HELP CHilDREN BECOME GooD PEOPLE by Alfie Kohn If we want children to… |
Sequence 76people have no idea what to do instead, but also because they get the job done. Two simple questions, however, cast the issue… |
Sequence 77behavior-at least, not in the way we want. No behavioral manipulation ever helped a child develop a commitment to becoming a… |
Sequence 78at night (or out the door in the morning), to head off an imminent tantrum or squabble between siblings in the grocery store-… |
Sequence 79nothing; we can expand the idea of doing something to include providing rewards. These reformulations are improvements, but… |
Sequence 80relying on extrinsic motivators makes perfect sense when our long-term goals are eclipsed by short-term objectives such as… |
Sequence 81But one way or another, millions of children learn to shut up and do what they're told. This lesson is typically enforced… |
Sequence 82Here is another exercise that teachers and parents often find valuable, which I invite you to do now. Close your eyes (when… |
Sequence 83and offer insufficient guidance on what he should do instead.l But this criticism only scratches the surface. Punishment doesn… |
Sequence 84Even judged by relatively narrow criteria, the evidence suggests that Assertive Discipline is ineffective .... But if it did… |
Sequence 85able to get good results from punishment" (Sears et al., 1957, pp. 485,486). The long-term results, however, were… |
Sequence 86in effect, "I don't have a good reason for making you do this-or I don't care enough to explain the reason… |
Sequence 87But others insist that they reflect qualitatively different prescriptions for dealing with children. A consequence is, by… |
Sequence 88If these writers don't see it this way, it may be because they overstate the significance of whether what we do to a… |
Sequence 89not that members of a community will work together and try to help someone who stumbles, but that anyone who violates a pre-… |
Sequence 90to the development of such concerns; it teaches that if they are caught doing something forbidden, they will have to suffer… |
Sequence 91"And If You're Good ... " Countless parents, including some who deliberately try to avoid using… |
Sequence 92Children who come to believe that their prosocial behavior reflects values or dispositions in themselves have internal… |
Sequence 93and evidence reviewed in this chapter about the harms of punishment apply to rewards as well. Second, rewards rupture… |
Sequence 94to accept responsibility, because, by virtue of being mechanjsms of control, rewards make the child feel less responsible,… |
Sequence 95Blumenfeld, P. C., Pimrich, P. R., & Hamilton, V. L. (1986). Children's concepts of ability, effott, and conduct… |
Sequence 96prosocial motivation: A socialization study. Developmental Psychology, 25, 509-15. Glasser, \VI. (1969).… |
Sequence 97thinking and choice making. School Psychology Review, 20, 382-88. Kutner, L 0990, November 29). As motivator, the carrot may… |
Sequence 98Toner, I. J. (1986). Punitive and non-punitive discipline and subsequent rule-following in young children. Child Care… |
Sequence 99INrnooucnoN SEEKING A RIGHTFUL PlAcE Bettelbeim's old-world consciousness laments the effects q/ajjluence. He cites the… |
Sequence 100COMMENTARY ON "SEEKING A RIGHIFUL PLACE" The article "Seeking a Rightful Place" is an… |
Sequence 101In an earlier chapter of "A Good Enough Parent," Bettelheim describes studies which compare Japanese… |
Sequence 102just as he hopes the reader will treat a child: by providing the theoretical knowledge for the parent to arrive at his or her… |
Sequence 103Finally, a note about pronouns. Bettelheim mentions in the preface to A Good Enou.gb Parent that he chooses to use the… |
Sequence 104Bruno Bettelheim 100 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. /9, No. 2 • Spring 1994 |
Sequence 105SEEKING A RIGHfFUL PLACE by Bruno Bettelheim Belong: In English usage when belong iS/ollowed by a preposi- tion, it is.… |
Sequence 106the place where it grew, but the trees which grow from these seeds can have their roots only where they grow; the same is true… |
Sequence 107someone else with whom he suffers by comparison. The child's academic responsibilities are by no means clearly defined,… |
Sequence 108dominant feeling of uncertainty, or a dissatisfaction with himself, so painful that he wants desperately to be free of it, at… |
Sequence 109how, tends to further reduce the pleasure in what we are doing and the satisfaction we can derive from doing it. In relation… |
Sequence 110it in a shape which conforms to the parent's views of orderliness and cleanliness, contradicts the essence of his… |
Sequence 111except in unusual situations such as emergencies-for example, when a parent is incapacitated by sickness, or when an older… |
Sequence 112Things may be pleasant enough once one has arrived at the destina- tion, but the enjoyable aspects of leisure activity do not… |
Sequence 113with awe as their father took a piece of iron, heated it in the red-hot flame, and hammered it into the shape of a tool. As… |
Sequence 114precedence in everyone's mind over schooling; this is indicated by the fact that even today the period of the long… |
Sequence 115In this way his life's work would be continued; it would not encl on his death. He was promised continuity not to his… |
Sequence 116picking up cans and boxes at the supermarket, and seeing parents drive back and forth from work do not suggest to the child… |
Sequence 117But there can be no emotional closeness where physical distance is desired. Although "out of sight, out of mind&… |
Sequence 118apart to avoid pricking each other. Alas, now they lose all the comfort and warmth they can give each other and are again… |
Sequence 119isolation that nearly always eventually leads to existential despair. These people have not lost but have never learned the… |
Sequence 120likelihood would be true for one's children helped create a strong feeling of belonging to a particular place, if not… |
Sequence 121disturbing the other's sleep and, more importanl, how to comfort each other when one awoke in the middle of the night out… |
Sequence 122Private space used not to be available to most people; today, in reaction to this, we aspire to give each child his own be.… |
Sequence 123INmooucnoN THE NATURAL INSTITUTION OF THE FAMILY Herbert Ratner's unique portrayal of nature's design of the fami~y… |
Sequence 124Herbert Ratner, M.D. 120 The NAMTA Journal • Vol. 19, No. 2 • Spring 1994 |
Sequence 125THE NATURAL INSTITUfION OF TIIE FAMILY (AN ABRIDGEMENT) by Herbert Ratner, M.D. Introduction Plants automatically lead good… |
Sequence 126to rise above his animality and his mammalian nature (but he doesn't escape from it) or drop below his animality and his… |
Sequence 127norms which supply the script for nature's prescription to the wholesome life. There is a tendency for those who have… |
Sequence 128and female; the secondary diversification would be achieved by one's position in the family constellation and by other… |
Sequence 129Nature has a vested interest in the traditional or monogamous family: the reproductive mode of her highest creature, man.… |
Sequence 130some other factors, and taken alroged1er, mey may seem like some wrathful deity is exacting revenge for our decade-long orgy… |
Sequence 131These differences set the female apart to be the primary caretaker of the newborn. Since nature fashioned the mammalian… |
Sequence 132If these philosophers are correct, and much modern thinking is supportive, the intelligence of each member of the nursing… |
Sequence 133state. Research shows that the newborn is responsive to the face from birth. The response is initially elicited by the eyes… |
Sequence 134womb with a view. If it can be said nature abhors a vacuum, it probably can equally be said that nature abhors a unisex.… |
Sequence 135mother to her child fortifies the child's natural inclinations to the fidelity he possesses as a social animal. In its… |
Sequence 136[n the face of preoccupation with the alleged "population explosion," where social engineers are urging… |
Sequence 137sex and postponed marriage age into the late twenties, it opted for the one- child family. Had China consulted me on its… |
Sequence 138Chfoa's society! Does this foretell a move to a state-ruled animal colony? And there is a further point to be made.… |
Sequence 139been viewed as a hardship. In countries with sharply reduced birth rates, we are now hearing of the sufferings of a… |