Have you ever thought that your child’s mind works very different to yours? Or that you wished you could jump into their mind just to understand them a little better? Maria Montessori had these exact same questions. To answer them she observed her children and discovered that the child’s mind is indeed a different mind to ours. Not only are they still constructing their brains but it has a different purpose to our own. When Maria Montessori worked at The Orthophrenic School (an institution for children with neurological disorders) she observed that children under six years old had a greater capacity to learn and work with their hands compared to…