The relationships between children and adults are usually complicated. Adults feel the responsibility of shaping children according to our values, and we intend that they adapt to the real world, that of the big ones. And how many times do we clash with our own frustration by encountering what we interpret as tantrums and whims? Actually, we've just been wrong about our role!

Maria Montessori unfolds in this book the guidelines of a true school for parents and teaches how to discover, with love and trust, the talents that are in children. In these pages, the Montessori method moves from the classroom to everyday life to, between the walls of the home, seek the goal of raising independent children. This path begins when parents and educators understand that children are not a material to which we must shape, but people who must find their own life projects. The challenge is to recognize each one and accompany him so that he can develop his abilities without limitations. The child in the family teaches step by step how to provide a safe, positive and serene home environment in which children can manifest with virtuosity their character and creativity.

This book, which gathers lectures in Brussels in 1923, simply and emphamicly exposes the fundamental principles of the method that revolutionized pedagogy around the world and became a phenomenal success. An eloquent manifest for healthy and natural education from the earliest days.