They make dresses. Beautiful dresses with near perfect seams. They don't poke themselves in the eye with them or chase each other in fits or rage. Children can be trusted. Really. Try it.
Where is all of this coming from? I know you are all wondering. I am also a catechist and in a recent training session, there were several ladies who had decided that children using pins (the pins for the pin maps, to be more specific) was a terrible idea. I overheard things like, "They would surely poke themselves in the eye" & "My kids would chase each other and poke each other!"
They worried, they fretted, but they didn't believe. They didn't give the children credit or respect. The children they were worried about were living up to the expectations given to them. These really nice ladies reasoned that we could give our children pins because they were Montessori children, they had been taught to use the pins properly. Hmmmmm....
Just look what years of using pins and needles properly can do.
