 happy, joyful This question was posed by at our last parent education night by our guest speaker, Joen Bettmann (Director of Training at the International Montessori Training Institute). The answers given by our parents were so thoughtful and inspiring we wanted to share them here. As parents, we hope our children will become adults that are...  that have a good work ethic  diligent  perceptive  seeking out challenge  collaborators  creative  generous and thoughtful  self-reliant  positive, engaging  resourceful, risk-takers, persevering  ambitious, motivated  responsible, respectful  adventurous and independent  life-long learners  that have a sense of humor and can be flexible  confident, considerate,  reliable and self-respecting  inquisitive  persevering  that reaches goals  Christian  self-sufficient  good citizen  humble and caring  dreamer  leading with integrity  self-motivating  passionate  honest and loving "...perhaps the best brain and life enhancing tools in the future may just be the very things our children had in their childhoods - childhood environments rich in love and attention of parents and teachers who care less about the accumulation of information and statistically measured achievement and who care more about the accumulation and expressions of wisdom, ingenuity, empathy, joy, grace and gratitude." - excerpt from Dr.Doug Lyon's address to Montessori school parents, Nov. 2005
Rissa Ward
4/4/2012 12:19:15 pm
I really really liked the pictures and the wording. Hopefully, this generation will have things in better shape when they are grownups. Comments are closed.
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