One of the questions we hear most often from families visiting Evviva Montessori is, “Do the children have to share?” The answer often surprises people. At Evviva, we encourage kindness, generosity, cooperation, and respect for others, but we generally do not require a child to immediately surrender a material simply because another child wants it. Instead, we teach children how to navigate a more complicated social reality: sometimes someone else is using something you want,