All, thank so much. This is a really interesting discussion. My daughter does seem really happy. My concern is only because she is very compliant, and I DO want her to be challenged and engaged. I have no interested in comparing her to her age-mates, but I did wonder if perhaps the non-comparison and her compliance was keeping her for engagement, if that makes sense.
I'm not worried. It was really more of a curiosity, since there seems to be as much discussion about montessori and I had been noticing some things with her and her classmates.
You may find that the compliant behavior changes as she grows. I would have said that our younger child was very compliant, but now that he's hit K age, things are changing. He is still more cooperative than our older child (understatement, older one is exceptionally strong willed) but wow. He has really started to exert his own will when things matter to him.
