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phil
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Welcome @matt! Matt Bateman is a philosopher & historian of education. Heās a cofounder of Guidepost Montessori, the worldās largest Montessori school network. He has agreed to do an AMA for the /ā books channel. Reply with your questions (please make sure to tag him so he can easily find them)
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jp š©
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for people that don't have kids, sometimes being told "you should have kids" is offensive unsolicited advice. given the impact that having kids (and relating to them as you have done) has brought to your human experience, and the natural and -projected by me- innate willingness to share that joy with others: how do you deal with the fact that people postpone having kids until they've "achieved something" in their life? what's your relationship to that whole process? long winded and diffuse question. the most important part of the answer is whatever comes to you as the answer. thanks for all the work you've done. they are a gift
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Matt Bateman
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1. Sometimes āshouldā means āitās your moral dutyā or something which is wrong. Other times it means āitās much, much better than you think it might beā or āgiven what I know about you, itās more worth considering than you seem to realizeā. Thereās a (very understandable) allergy towards shoulds but on a more charitable read of them this is not necessarily offensive advice. Itās about sharing enthusiasm for how wonderful it can be, which is not always easy to understand.
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