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Tendencies

Tendencies of the child does not start at 3 years. It starts at conception. Tendencies are universal because all human being have it. It is helped to construct a man. Before birth tendencies are dormant and sleep. We have to activate it after birth.

Exploration          Orientation           Concentration                                 

    

Self-perfection      Exactitude            Imagination                                  

                   

 Socialization        Independence       Abstraction                       

 Repetition             repetition             Creative Imagination       

Work                      Order                   Spiritual life  

Communication      Movement

Exploration is a tendency which puts man in contact with his environment. When we consider about the child who explores physically through his senses and through movement especially of the hands. The child uses all his resources to explore and absorb impressions. In the earlier stages the child looks around the cot, touching, smelling, tasting etc. This tendency make him to urge to explore. He experience the difference inside and outside.  At 2 years he is able to explore every object using his hand.Orientation is help the child to find his place in this environment. This tendency helping him to adapt himself to the environment  which he has born.The baby start communication with his mother even before birth. This is done through movements. After birth child communicate through gestures, cries, touch, smile to make know his needs. The parent try to interpret this demands. He cries different ways to express different needs. Orientation is also an important tendency because after birth child enters completely to a different environment. This tendency helps the child to find his place. He gets in to use the different temperature, smells, noises, food etc.  The child has to orient with his strange environment to adapt himself to the environment.Order is as essential to a little child to be successful in any action. Order is essential for the orientation.order is need for intellect as it is leads to clarity of thought .Outer order helps to create inner order.Disorder disturbs him, upsets him, and he may express his suffering by despairing cries or by an agitation that can even assume the forms of illness.

For example story from the secret of child by Dr. maria Montessori  A little family Scene,

Baby only few months old was accustomed to lie on a high oblique bed, so is to dominate its environment.  There were coloured panes in the windows, a few pretty pieces of furniture. flowers and among other things, a table with a yellow table cloth on which stood a plant.one day a visitor came in and put her umbrella on the table. The baby girl began to grow excited, and the umbrella was certainly the cause, for after staring at it. She began to cry.it was thought that she wanted the umbrella, which was brought to her but she pushed it away. But the baby’s mother who knew something of the child’s early psychological symptoms, took the umbrella from the table carried it out of the  place. Immediately the child grew calm. The reason for her agitation was that the umbrella on the table was in the wrong place, and this violently disturbed the usual picture of the position of things in an order that child needed to remember.