Maria Montessori - The Absorbent Mind

It makes so much sense to me: have your child treat every day as an opportunity to explore, and give them the structured freedom to explore, and they will be too busy to try to get into trouble. Kids *want* to learn. They have to be taught to be lazy. (Watching my daughter, I would say that this is so.) I am so lucky to have been allowed to study at a Montessori school for two of the prime formative years (thank you, Harriet!!!). Especially after reading this book, I see how - while I went on to learn some bad habits from later influences - a lot of what I learned there at the very least instilled in me a love of learning. Rated 2+.