Montessori childminder Charlotte Vallence says she and her four assistants have ‘slowed down’ since she completed a course introducing the Pikler approach, ‘both in the way we give our care and in our expectations of how a child develops’.
The four five-hour workshops were organised by social enterprise Early Childhood Outdoors and delivered by two Pikler specialists in Copmanthorpe, North Yorkshire.
Its main principles are the importance of letting children develop at their own pace, and forging strong connections with caregivers. ‘A prime example would be propping babies up to sitting when they don’t have the necessary neck control,’ Ms Vallence explains. ‘This essentially immobilises them and yet it is absolutely commonplace in our culture.’
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