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When Self-Direction Meets Real-World Constraints

My Montessori-educated teenager is incredibly self-directed but also seems to expect the world to accommodate her choices the way her school always did and gets frustrated when it doesn't.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Children accustomed to high degrees of autonomy may struggle when external systems don't honor their self-determination.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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