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Lucinda's Reviews > Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three

Montessori from the Start by Paula Polk Lillard
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For the most part I think there is a lot of truth to what the author argues in this book. Giving your child the freedom and opportunity (and support provided in the proper way) to develop gross and fine motor skills, language skills and practical daily life skills starts, well, from the start of their life (not at 3 years of age when they head off to preschool).
At times, though, the author comes across as really sanctimonious, as though using any sort of devices - like a high chair, for instance, or heaven forbid! a playpen - to keep your child safe and free to play while you are busy doing other things, is a horrible and lazy and selfish form of parenting. I for one will not feel guilty in having my child sit happily in her high chair by the rest of us while we have our dinner.
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