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Child Development in Montessori Education has divided into four important stages called the absorbent mind, reasoning mind, social consciousness, and transition into adulthood.

Young minds from birth to six years old are sensitive and it is essential for parents or adults to support them at this stage. 

  • At Alive Montessori School, we believe that learning goes beyond the classroom. Montessori education encourages children to explore, create, and grow in a hands-on, child-centered environment. We know many parents are eager to extend this philosophy at home, but might not know where to start. That’s why we are excited to launch our new blog series: Montessori Activities for Home.


  • At Alive Montessori, we are using the educational methodology developed by Maria Montessori because it has a proven track record of achieving much better results than other methods. For example, 3 and 4 year-olds typically learn to read and write and do simple math – skills normally expected two or three years later in the public school system.


  • There is a perception that as the Montessori approach encourages independent work cycles, children in a Montessori classroom do not interact with each other, thus resulting in a lack of social interaction which can have a negative impact upon the child’s development. Nevertheless, while Montessori does respect the fact that each child is unique and has different areas of interests, hence the children are allowed to choose their own materials and a classroom is not expected to have children who will do the same activity at the same time, there are different ways in which social interaction is met daily.


Maria Montessori being an educator observed that the physical developments in each child, like crawling, walking, talking, etc happen during the same years. It is easily detectable in a child, but observing the mental development milestones is a little difficult. It hence has divided this into four important stages called the absorbent mind, reasoning mind, social consciousness, and transition into adulthood.

Young minds from birth to six years old are sensitive and it is important for parents or adults to support them at this stage. 

The Montessori theory of child development is called the four distinct planes of development that is an important phase between infancy and early adulthood. These developmental phases include both physical and psychological changes and accordingly the education system needs to be planned wherein children get the maximum benefit of learning.