Montessori Rules

[poliphilo]

 Sej is being raised according to Montessori rules- one of which is no exposure to the moving image before 18 months.  I was in disagreement but toed the line.

Well, he's past that marker now.

This morning he was especially cranky so (up yours, Montessori!) I put him on my knee in front of the big computer screen and we watched music vids (Offenbach's Can Can and some nursery rhymes),  a Betty Boop cartoon from 1935 (highly moralistic in a way that simply wouldn't fly today) and an episode of Teletubbies.

Comments

[cmcmck]

Montessori is in some ways excellent and in others just plain weird and this would count as just plain weird.

[poliphilo]

I agree. The approach is admirable, but the rules are, well, rules- and made to be broken.