R-e-s-p-e-c-t

You know how a passage in a book (or, on this case, on the computer) sometimes stops you in your busy-ness, and makes you pause for a while and think?

Looking something up, and came across this:

Children, like everyone else, tend to live up to our expectations or down to our disrespect. Love is not enough; the respect that we give our children and that we insist on in return is the key. Don't ask your children to earn your respect and trust, assume that they deserve to be treated with respect from the beginning.

Hmph. Nice. It's from A Children's House at home (Copyright 2003 by Montessori International magazine, www.montessorimagazine.com).

Same magazine made me laugh out loud a few weeks ago:

Are we giving a baby dignity when we unbox a plastic telephone on wheels with a silly face? (Copyright 2003 by Montessori International magazine, www.montessorimagazine.com)

I remember those phones . . . they are a little undignified, come to think of it!

Grandparents Reisdorf are here this week; pictures tomorrow night or over the weekend.