Child's individuality has to be appreciated and helicopter parenting will inhibit the growth of child.Montessori school environment provides a space for the child to discover himself/herself.Here the Spiritual embryo is child.Help the child how to think not on what to think.

1. Changing Scenario Of Marriage
And Family System In India
SPIRITUAL
EMBRYO AND
ITS
REPRESSION Thiripurasundari.P.N.
Child development trainee,
MMI

2. THE NARCISSUS AND THE LAKE

3. the
theme?

4. What are we going to discuss?
 Spiritual Embryo.
 Meaning Of Helicopter Parents /Over Protective
Parents.
 Characteristics Of Helicopter Parent.
 Why Are They So?
 Impact On Child
 Spiritual Embryo’s Repression
 Development Theory 0-6 Years
 Application Of Montessori Principle.

5. SPIRITUAL EMBRYO
 Dr.Maria Montessori developed the concept of the spiritual embryo
that man develops through two successive embryonic stages –
 THE PHYSICAL EMBRYO IN THE PRENATAL PERIOD
FROM CONCEPTION TO BIRTH
 THE SPIRITUAL EMBRYO IN THE CHILDHOOD PERIOD
FROM BIRTH TO AROUND SIX YEARS.
 Montessori uses the term ‘Spiritual’ because it is during this time
that the child internalizes at a subconscious level to all the elements
of his spiritual territory which constitute the total environment of
any social group.

6. HELICOPTER PARENTING
The term "helicopter parent" was first used in Dr. Haim
Ginott's1969 bookParents& Teenagers.
The term became popular enough to become a dictionary
entry in 2011.
Helicopter parenting refers to "a style of parents who are
over focused on their children, even when they don’t
need,"says Carolyn Daitch.
It means being involved in a child's life in a way that is
over controlling, over protecting, and over perfecting, in
a way that is in excess of responsible parenting,"
Dr. Dunne explains.

7. CHARACTERISTICS OF HELICOPTER PARENT

8. CHARACTERISTICS OF HELICOPTER PARENT

9. CHARACTERISTICS OF HELICOPTER PARENT

10. CHARACTERISTICS OF HELICOPTER PARENT

11. CHARACTERISTICS OF HELICOPTER PARENT

12. CHARACTERISTICS OF HELICOPTER PARENT

13. PREJUDIC
THE FOLLOWING PREJUDICES REGARDING CHILD
MAKES PARENTS TO BE OVERPROTECTIVE:
The life of the child can be changed or improved only
through teaching.
A mind of a child is empty-without a guide and without
laws of its own.
The child cannot control his/her movements and is
incapable of taking care of himself.

14. PREJUDIC
OTHER REASONS:
 Need for control
 Need for being loved
 Need to express love
 Bigger, Better and Faster
 Fear of failure
 Desire to live vicariously
 Entitlement
 Need to keep the child young

15. Squelching Happiness
Decreasing Confidence
Stunting Growth
Inhibiting Learning
Fear of failure
Irresponsibility

17. SPIRITUAL EMBRYO’S REPRESSION
The child develops in the security and protection of the family. It is
through the family that he adapts to his culture to become as “…not just
a man, but a man of his race.”
The child whose sensitivity encounters obstacles and finds himself involved
in insuperable conflicts with the grown-up who is stronger than he, who
masters he, without understanding.
The word Repression as used by Freud to indicate the deep seated origins
of psychological disturbances in the adult explains itself. The child
cannot expand in the manner required by a being in process of
development, for the adult represses him.

19. Piaget

20. Maria Montessori

21. Montessori uses the term ‘Spiritual’ because it is during this time that
the child internalizes at a subconscious level – the level of the absorbent mind
– all the elements of his spiritual territory which constitute the total
environment of any social group.
Montessori principle focuses on period of “SPIRITUAL EMBRYO”
for two purposes:
To develop the psychic characteristics of intellect, will, emotions,
fantasy, imagination and language;
To permit adaptation “to the conditions of the world about him”.
APPLICATION OF MONTESSORI PRINCIPLE

22. ABSORBENT MIND

23. Birth – 3 years Absorbent Mind
Sensory experiences
1 ½ - 3 years Language development
1 ½ - 4 years Coordination and muscle development
Interest in small objects
2 – 4 years Refinement of movement
Concern with truth and reality
Awareness of order sequence in time and space
2 ½ - 6 years Sensory refinement
3 - 6 years Susceptibility to adult influence
3 ½ - 4 ½ years Writing
4 – 4 ½ years Tactile sense
4 ½ - 5 ½ years Reading
SENSITIVE PERIOD

25. Allow Children to Practice Making Choices!
Allow Children to Feel What Responsibility Is!
Allow Children to Make Mistakes!
Allow Children to speak!
Allow Children To Continue Its Creativity!
Help The Child, How To Think Not On What To Think!
Respect the child, Appreciate, Don't Praise!
Prepare Children to Handle Risks And Face Failures!
Empower Children to Discover Who They Are!
What does the Montessori say?

26. THIRIPURASUNDARI.P.N.