In the early Montessori materials, children explore and practice concepts through concrete, hands-on manipulatives. These materials, from…
Montessori Monday: The Strip Boards
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For Parents
Dinnertime
You’ve heard it before: families that sit down to dinner together enjoy higher academic outcomes for their kids, higher self-esteem, and…
The Witching Hour
The activity of the day is done (almost.) Dinner is ready (almost.) The table is almost set. The kids are almost settled down. You’re not…
What happens next…
While this is the time of year when many parents and schools are preparing for their Fall registrations, when new combinations of…
Montessori Monday: The Land and Water Forms
Children learn concretely, adopting new concepts best when they can feel them in their hands and move them about. For some concepts, like…
Pay Attention!
Although parents often complain the most about their older children’s attention spans, we don’t talk that often about our infants’…
Loneliness in the Third Plane
We keep being told that this generation is different. “Kids today” care less. They’re shallow. They’re soft. They don’t know how to deal…
Montessori Monday: The Long Chains
The Montessori Math materials offer concrete, manipulative experiences with concepts that most adults think about abstractly. Through…
Talking to Your Children About Tragedy
It is the seventh week of the new year, and the US today endures the eighth school shooting in as many weeks, in a country that buries…
Commercial-Free Valentine’s Day
You might remember your school Valentine’s Day celebrations from childhood: the paper-covered shoe-boxes or paper bags to collect…