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When your Montessori child isn't reading and you're losing faith in the method

My eight-year-old has been at a Montessori school for three years and still cannot read and I am watching all her friends move ahead while the teachers keep saying to trust the process but I am terrified we are failing her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The tension between trusting natural development and the fear of falling behind reveals our deeper anxiety about control and faith in unfolding.

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