Parenting

The stereotypes about teenagers abound: the eye rolling, the cliques, talking-back, faces in their phones. If you only believed what you saw in the media, you might think teenagers were universally unruly, antisocial, disrespectful, and surly. Yeah, sometimes. But they're just as often, and often … Read more about Parenting in the Third Plane

Routines with your child provide the two basic ingredients necessary for learning: relationships and repetition. For most adults, our daily lives involve a cycle of patterns which are routines we perform almost every day. Such as waking up and making our morning coffee. This is also true for babies … Read more about The Importance of Routines with Your Child

Living in Northeast Ohio surely has amazing opportunities to explore the outdoors. Just within walking distance or a short drive, we have local parks and a National Park available for us to explore and enjoy. Taking a young child to do nature activities will begin to instill in them the love, care, … Read more about Nature Activities To Do With Your Young Child

When we look at those sweet, sleepy little bundles of joy, it can be easy to forget how hard their little brains are working every single day. As parents, we can assist their brains in developing and forming new connections by providing simple, intentional, daily enrichment activities for them. Here … Read more about Exploring a New World: 6 Engaging Activities for Your Infant

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