Best known for her teaching methods in the early years of schooling - through the "Children's Houses", the first of which was founded in Rome in 1907 - Maria Montessori (1870-1952) was also interested in the child's first relationships with his or her family. This is a very sensitive reality today, when many parents no longer know how to relate to their children in a way that reconciles respect and authority. This book is a collection of previously unpublished texts from a series of lectures given in Brussels in 1923 on this theme. Maria Montessori offers a guide for parents and educators to avoid misunderstandings and the temptation to be authoritarian.
