How To Set Kind & Clear Boundaries With Babies & Children

Offering our baby choices, giving time and opportunity for movement and activity, and letting them feed themselves are some of the ways that we give our baby freedom. “Freedom” can be a difficult word to understand, as we are often used to it meaning “freedom from” something, like rules or having to work. In a Montessori context, we give the baby and child “freedom to” do something—like freedom to choose, to move, and to express themselves. It’s not a license to do whatever they like—it’s freedom within the rules of our family and society.