You really can’t do without the internet anymore, they are in your face all the time. For more information, go to “www.mydomain.com”. You are now expected to give away your email address when you register for your child’s education at school. No email? You just have to get one from a hotmail because the school teachers are no longer going to call you on your mobile phone; they’ll give you their email and website addresses and expect you to follow up on events at school. When you call the school for further information, they’ll ask you if they could send you a text message later. If it is not important, you will not receive a letter in the mail, because mailing costs time and money. You might have arrived here after searching for a solution to your problems as well. That is how the internet is for. You came searchng for solutions, you read about other people’s opinions about certain subjects which interest you, then you try to look for better solutions to perfect your day.

I used the internet when I was studying the Montessori programme; and I never wanted to see the computer ever again. Then I started to hear computer and internet jargons coming out of pre-school kids, words which teachers will not use at circle time. “Mum, did you get sms from dad.” “Dad, I want to invite my friends to my birthday party. Can we get their emails?”

Ok you get my point.

You have to get ahead of the kids. Before you even have a gmail account, your kid would have started socialising on websites to do what other kids are already doing and uploading videos.

“The hands are the intelligence of the mind.” Maria Montessori. The Absorbent Mind.

But the kids are not using much of their hands anymore; they learn to use their fingers for touch typing on the keyboard and remote controls. They prefer to know that when they hit the letter a, it appears automatically on the screen and never have to worry about how their ‘a’ looks like. When they type a word or sentence, it always come out in a straight row. Who needs the eraser and pencil? This is what kids do these days. They stop practising their skills at doing things with their hands. They want to write faster, quicker and learn ever more speedily because hey need to race off to play. They do their homework on the bed like they would when they play computer games or cuddle up on the sofa ten fingers on the PSP game machine.

People talk about how the way kids learn have changed and usually with a tinge of madness in their voices. “Kids learn so fast these days.” Then they would say things like, “I was not in school till I was 5 years old.” Or “I never had a computer at home but these kids have one in each room.”
So how do kids become so well trained in their heads to learn so fast?

Maria Montessori seemed to have all the answers because her work is now well known all over the world. I am going to try to explain to you in the best of my ability. In the meantime you have to read some of her works. Click here.