A Montessori Mother

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Preface	v
I.	Some Introductory Remarks About Parents	1
II.	A Day in a Casa dei Bambini	7
III.	More About What Happens in a Casa dei Bambini	29
IV.	Something About the Apparatus and About the Theory Underlying It	48
V.	Description of the Rest of the Apparatus and the Method for Writing and Reading	67
VI.	Some General Remarks About the Montessori Apparatus in the American Home	91
VII.	The Possibility of American Adaptations of, or Additions to, the Montessori Apparatus	105
VIII.	Some Remarks on the Philosophy of the System	117
IX.	Application of This Philosophy to American Home Life	127
X.	Some Considerations on the Nature of “Discipline”	141
XI.	More About Discipline, with Special Regard to Obedience	153
XII.	Difficulties in the Way of a Universal Adoption of the Montessori Ideas	165
XIII.	Is There Any Real Difference Between the Montessori System and the Kindergarten?	171
XIV.	Moral Training	195
XV.	Dr. Montessori’s Life and the Origin of the Casa dei Bambini	210
XVI.	Some Last Remarks	232
	Index	239

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