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Spring is almost here, and that means it's time to start thinking about a spring garden. After all, everybody enjoys some home-grown vegetables, and wasting perfectly good rain and sunshine would be an absolute shame. Besides being a wonderful source of healthy foods, gardens can actually be a … Read more about Gardening for Fun and Education

As with most things in Montessori education, music doesn't stand alone. Instead, it is integrated into the child's day, becoming a natural tool for learning many things. Music is an environment, and in this environment of musical activities and sensations, the child develops a musical intelligence. … Read more about Montessori and Music: Musical Activities at Home

“Help Me Do It Myself.” Everyone’s home is unique. Each family needs to set up their home in a way that works for all members of the household. This offers some suggestions to incorporate the young child’s developmental needs throughout the home. Children develop confidence and a sense of … Read more about How to Prepare Your Home to Encourage Independence for Your Young Child

When a baby's sleep schedule conflicts with a sibling's school schedule, can prove to be very difficult. The older child needs to be brought to school and picked up from school at certain times, and there are after-school activities and errands to do. You also know your baby needs sleep. How can the … Read more about When Baby’s Sleep Schedule Conflicts with Sibling’s School Schedule

No Montessori early childhood classroom would be complete without the Pink Tower, one of the original materials designed by Dr. Montessori herself. For the child, the tower offers an intriguing challenge: build the ten cubes as high as you can make them without the tower crumbling. This is more … Read more about The Pink Tower

Ah! It’s that time of (day/week/month again)… time for a trip to the grocery store, that veritable amusement park of colors, smells, and temptations driven to explode your budget and decimate your healthy eating goals. You have your list. You have your cart. You have your plan… and you have your … Read more about Toddlers at the Grocery Store

  Music plays a very important role in the development of the whole child. Inside the womb, tones, vibrations, mood can be recognized by the unborn. Active involvement in music-making as a young child develops social skills and emotional well-being. For any person, and especially the young … Read more about The Importance of Music For Young Children

It can be difficult to get your toddler to listen to you and follow the rules that you set. You may be at the point where scolding and nagging no longer works and you’re almost at your wit's end. Yet we’ve discovered that there’s a solution. These six creative rules for disciplining your toddler … Read more about 6 Unusual Rules for Disciplining Your Toddler That Are Effective

If you think of the window of development between birth and age six as marked by the construction of labels for files in a cognitive file cabinet, the period between six and twelve is when children fill up those files. Children now are interested in learning to master the procedures of mathematical … Read more about Math and the Elementary Mind

DIY Montessori Crafts and Arts offer young children wonderful learning activities targeting their fine motor skills, creativity, and problem-solving skills.  In particular, Montessori crafts focus on teaching real-world skills through fun, creative activities.  By exposing preschoolers and … Read more about 4 DIY Montessori Crafts and Art Activities for Your Home

If you believe what you see in the media, you might expect children in the Second Plane to be just plain awful, disrespectful and limit-testing and unkempt and chaotic. There's some of that, to be true, for important developmental reasons. But the same phenomena of development that make children in … Read more about Empathy in the Second Plane

The holiday season is a magical time of the year. You get to spend more time with family and friends, enjoy favorite foods that you only get to eat at specific times of the year, and enjoy great seasonal activities. For toddlers, however, the holidays can be fodder for a meltdown just waiting to … Read more about Practical Tips for a Toddler-Friendly Thanksgiving