This is my letter for last year’s Austin Montessori School yearbook. It’s time for me to write a new one. After reading this letter, I think I’ve said it all. To me, this letter is the best, the most comprehensive statement I can offer. Can you help me by suggesting other points could I make while creating a new letter for this yea’s yearbook?
Yes, the richness of language matters and the number of words counts, but the more educated and more middle class the parents are, the more complicated it gets. When do we speak with our children and how? Why and how this matters is key, and in today’s world of blabber, not obvious. To the contrary, it can be downright confounding. It has to do with the urgency and importance of the child’s cycles of activity. Read more »