Parenting

If you're like most American families, your child spends at least some time every day strapped into a car seat in the backseat of the car. Walking and biking to school has declined over the last forty years, with only about 13% of American children walking to school compared to over 70% a generation … Read more about Montessori in the Backseat

Learning and exploring doesn't need to end in the classroom. Parents and caregivers can set up unique and fun learning environments in the home too, which can work hand in hand with what children are learning from the Montessori classroom. This is especially useful over the summertime to keep young, … Read more about 5 Perfect Wooden Toys for Your Montessori Space

In even the most carefully prepared environments, children may hear and watch difficult news coverage, stories that their parents are processing at the same time, or current events that can leave them confused or scared. Our exposure to "bad news" is growing: while statistics show that crime overall … Read more about Nightly News: Talking with Children and Teens about Difficult Events

Teaching a child to tell the time can be a daunting task. So, you might be asking how to teach a child to tell time? There are many different strategies for teaching a child how to read and understand the time. By using this 5-step instructional guide, you will have all the information you need to … Read more about How To Teach a Child to Tell Time

Being a good parent is about balancing your many responsibilities. In the world of work-life balance, dinner is a very important time in the day. Dinner is often one of the few times the entire family can come together and enjoy time together. At the same time, you also need to balance your child's … Read more about Parent-Kit Essentials: Making Homemade Spaghetti from Scratch

Emily Post once wrote, “ Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.” We think about manners in quite the same way in the Montessori classroom. While our environments are spaces within which children’s … Read more about Grace and Courtesy: Teaching Manners Matters

As we move past the transitional first days of school and the rhythms of the school year begin to be established, we will begin sending out more details about exactly how Montessori environments work. Each week, you can expect to find a single Montessori material explained in greater detail in your … Read more about Rolling a Rug

Throw away the M&M’s! Or, at least hide them in the cabinet to enjoy. Helping your child to master the toilet doesn’t require candy, stickers and rewards. Children have a natural desire to care for their bodies. Toileting can be a tool for independence learned as easily and painlessly as any … Read more about On the Topic of Toileting

You've heard it before: families that sit down to dinnertime with family together enjoy higher academic outcomes for their kids, higher self-esteem, and more persistence through challenges. Kids whose families eat dinner together regularly are less likely to engage in substance abuse, to experience … Read more about Dinnertime With Family

SOME WORDS OF ADVICE TO TEACHERS, 1924 When you're practicing in a tradition with as much history as Montessori has, sometimes you stumble across gems you hadn't read before. Happy to share this recent find with you:  ~Maria Montessori “Anticipating some of the questions which will … Read more about Some Words of Advice to Teachers

Montessori schools are based on the Montessori method, which Maria Montessori created. It is a child-centered approach to learning that emphasizes cognitive development in each stage of life. It's an innovative approach to teaching children to learn, developing their natural love of learning, and … Read more about What is the Role of the Teacher in the Montessori Method?

"Montessori" can mean a lot of things: the Montessori Method, Dr. Montessori, a philosophy of parenting, of teaching, of life, the materials we use in the classroom... this is a complicated philosophy that's far more than just a curricular package. In brief, Montessori is a philosophy of education … Read more about What Is Montessori?