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Wait a sec, what happened here?!!
Aug. 20th, 2005 06:49 pmFirst, before you read any further, you need to go read this.
No, really, you do. Not too far in. The first few paragraphs really get the picture across.
Finished? Good.
Now, imagine that this has happened to me. In the space of a couple of weeks...literally.
Someone has taken my sweet, loving, clean, tidy Kouryou-chan, and replaced her with...
THE DEMON KOURYOU-CHAN FROM HELL!!!!!
I kid you not.
Where once there was a loving pre-school kid, now there is a bratty, naughty elementary school kid who is driving me up the wall. She's talking back at every turn. She won't put things away anymore (now, when she puts her clothes away, she no longer folds them; as she put it just last week, "I don't need to fold them; I'll just dump them into my drawers."). She cries every time her needs or wants aren't met. She completely and utterly ignores you if she's decided that anything you have to say is not important. And attention must be gained, at the cost of physical pain (to you) if necessary.
In Montessori, you move into the next teaching group when you are both socially and academically ready, not just when your age has reached a certain point (as in public school). Kouryou-chan, when she finished school in June, though she is five, wasn't yet socially ready (according to both her primary and the elementary teachers) to move into the elementary group. There were certain characteristics that she had to display for that to occur. Well, she has displayed all of those characteristics. I predict that she will end up staying in primary for all of a couple of weeks at this point before they boot her to the elementary group (which she has been academically ready for for quite some time).
No, really, you do. Not too far in. The first few paragraphs really get the picture across.
Finished? Good.
Now, imagine that this has happened to me. In the space of a couple of weeks...literally.
Someone has taken my sweet, loving, clean, tidy Kouryou-chan, and replaced her with...
THE DEMON KOURYOU-CHAN FROM HELL!!!!!
I kid you not.
Where once there was a loving pre-school kid, now there is a bratty, naughty elementary school kid who is driving me up the wall. She's talking back at every turn. She won't put things away anymore (now, when she puts her clothes away, she no longer folds them; as she put it just last week, "I don't need to fold them; I'll just dump them into my drawers."). She cries every time her needs or wants aren't met. She completely and utterly ignores you if she's decided that anything you have to say is not important. And attention must be gained, at the cost of physical pain (to you) if necessary.
In Montessori, you move into the next teaching group when you are both socially and academically ready, not just when your age has reached a certain point (as in public school). Kouryou-chan, when she finished school in June, though she is five, wasn't yet socially ready (according to both her primary and the elementary teachers) to move into the elementary group. There were certain characteristics that she had to display for that to occur. Well, she has displayed all of those characteristics. I predict that she will end up staying in primary for all of a couple of weeks at this point before they boot her to the elementary group (which she has been academically ready for for quite some time).
