This is a short video by Trevor Eissler, Montessori schooling advocate, on the benefits of Montessori schools. Topics include:
Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic motivation
Grades
Comparisons between Motessori and Public Schools
Maintaining a child’s spark of curiosity
The Montessori model is a wonderful, child-friendly approach to education that emphasizes independence, child-led educational freedom, and respect a child’s natural psychological development. You can find out more about Motenssori schools in your area at FindAMontessori.com.
Dayna Martin interviews unschooled teens, Devin Martin and Rileigh Forslund. The three discuss how some common issues are approached in the Radical Unschooling model. Topics include:
Do the teens help out with cleaning even though they have no assigned chores?
How did Dayna respond to Devin’s desire to get a piercing? Did he get it as an act of teenage rebellion?
Unschooler individuality and acceptance of others
Are there cliques in groups of unschoolers?
What do the lives of kids in school look like to Devin and Rileigh?
Stefan responds to the following question from a FreedomainRadio listener:
As a non spanking parent, what do you do with your toddler if he won’t leave the playground when it’s time to go? I’ve tried telling him I’m going and he’s going to be left alone and I hide so he doesn’t see me, but he doesn’t care.
The shocking science about the long-term effects of corporal punishment, essential viewing for every parent!
From the video sources:
Spanking by parents can significantly damage a child’s mental abilities and results in a lower IQ later in life, suggests a new groundbreaking study by researchers at the University of New Hampshire. (themoneytimes.com)
Researchers found that harsh physical punishment was associated with increased odds of mood disorders, anxiety disorders, alcohol and drug abuse/dependence, and several personality disorders after adjusting for sociodemographic variables and family dysfunction, and that if harsh physical punishment did not occur, the prevalence of certain mental disorders might have been reduced by ~2% to 7%. (repeal43.org)
Researchers reviewed some 80 research papers on the effects of corporal punishment over the past 20 years and concluded that numerous studies found physical punishment increases the risk of broad and enduring negative developmental outcomes; no study has found that physical punishment enhances developmental health; most child physical abuse occurs in the context of punishment; a professional consensus is emerging that parents should be supported in learning nonviolent, effective approaches to discipline. (repeal43.org)
Children who are spanked as 1-year-olds are more likely to behave aggressively and perform worse on cognitive tests as toddlers than children who are spared the punishment, new research our of Duke University shows. (utexas.edu)
