From an early age, babies need to experience their bodies, discover their sensations and move in order to be able to pass through the different stages of postural development: crawling, moving on all fours, moving to a standing position, walking, running, jumping, etc. Then comes the importance of coordination between the upper and lower limbs of the body and fine motor skills. A necessary basis for all future learning and perceptive and cognitive development. Hence the role of psychomotor education which will accompany the child.

En cas de retard au niveau du développement, de troubles ou de difficultés d’apprentissage ou autres handicaps, la rééducation ou la thérapie psychomotrice aura un rôle important  au niveau de l’évolution des capacités de l’enfant ou la personne.

Je trouve que chaque personne mérite d’avoir cet équilibre entre son corps / sa relation avec soi et son développement intellectuel.

I often hear adults and parents say: "We were educated using traditional methods and now we have succeeded in our lives!" Why choose or use the Montessori method?

Yes, it is true, we have succeeded, but no one can also know what educational heritage we carry with us and what its effect could be on us and on our relationships with others.

What the Montessori method offers first of all is autonomy! I find that it is the most important basis for life, not only physical autonomy but especially relational and emotional autonomy. Freeing oneself from dependence on others, learning to manage alone and to detach oneself from others. This is the first key to success in life and from a very young age the child can be autonomous. Note that children like to be autonomous but it is often the adult who is the obstacle and who cannot free themselves from this desire or feeling of being protective.

Secondly, Montessori education helps develop the potential found in each child and aims to encourage their curiosity and pleasure in exploring, understanding and growing.

Montessori pedagogy takes into consideration the being in its entirety and transmits the essential values ​​of respect and listening, the desire and pleasure of learning and self-confidence.

Before answering this question, I always take some time to talk with the parents to understand the situations that led the parents to see this behavior and judge that the child is stubborn.

First of all, it is necessary to specify the age: between 1 and a half / 2 and 3 years old, all children are stubborn!! Because they begin to discover, to build their personality, to manipulate the adult to see if he will be able to do what he wants or if there is a strict framework with clear and precise rules. It is at this stage that everything begins to be built: either the child understands that there is a "NO" in life and that he cannot do everything as he wants, or he grows without limits and therefore since he is not used to being upset or to being refused certain requests, he will not be able to tolerate "NO" and frustration. In the latter case, it is no longer a matter of behavior or a stubborn child but rather an education that has led to "being a stubborn child" so the solution is to rework the entire framework and lifestyle, hence the importance of parental guidance.