I just can’t believe that Maria meant teach­ers not to talk to the chil­dren in their class­rooms. There seems to be a pre­vail­ing so-called ‘Montessori train­ing’ that advis­es teach­ers of babies, tod­dlers and 3–6 year olds to just sit back and ‘observe’. How on earth can chil­dren learn their lan­guage? It’s even more impor­tant when […]

I’m not just refer­ring to cheap child­care. Even child­care that is expen­sive and pur­ports to offer ‘spe­cial’ meth­ods can still be mediocre.  Parental care can be mediocre even when the par­ent is oth­er­wise well qual­i­fied in their pro­fes­sion­al field like ele­men­tary school teach­ers, or when the par­ent titles them­selves an ‘at home moth­er’ or an […]