It’s interesting to peer back into our days of old. The memorable or maybe not so memorable times of our childhood?
Dr Maria Montessori has left an impressionable footprint in my view of child development and learning. Looking at the initial stages of child development, first three years of growth, Montessori calls the absorbent mind, ‘a special mechanisms exists for language.’ Not the possession of language itself, but the possession of this mechanism which enables men to make languages of their own, in what distinguishes human species[1].
As Mario M. Montessori explains in the Education for Human Development: Understanding Montessori, The absorbent stage where learning is mainly influenced by the result of unconscious mechanisms determined by the emotional development of the child and in turn is dependent on the adult who cares for it.
Introjections, imitation, and identification are of particular importance in the formation of behavior patterns and the acquisition of cultural attitudes.
This tells the story, Children See. Children Do.
I find myself almost as a replica of my mother’s way of being. She’d teach, “Others before Self.” And being in the company of children recently surfaced this point, I found myself teaching the little ones almost naturally the concept of sharing and giving before gratifying their needs. And reflecting on what Montessori mentioned, not only were the good results channelled this way, where imitation is concerned. Boy do I scream like my mother when I do 
What about your version of replica? How has that changed the way you think about the world?
[1] Montessori, The Abosorbent Mind p.37
Yes Dear Audrey,
Infect i do follow my mother, I remeber when we were young, our family is quite poor, there were once incident my mum’s brought a bundle of banana, she offer to others before her own childern and we will only have it if it some left over.
The world will be beautifully if we learn and practice the good way of “Others before self”
Tks and God Bless!
June
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