Why less can be more for young children, and how to actually get there. I saw an Instagram post today that included the hook: A child can never have too many toys. …and I hope I can convince you otherwise. A little tongue-in-cheek, but it highlights how easily toys can take over a home and […]
Not sure whose work this is, but whomever: I hope you never stop loving glue sticks. Scroll Instagram or Pinterest or search “toddler art projects” on google, and you’ll find a lot of traced hands, painty footprints, and googly eyes. Please know: I have nothing against any of these individually or even, occasionally, together, but:
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This is a repost from our private IG group (session families, click to read the 100+ posts over there!), but it feels timely heading into the new year. I bought and wear this shirt as a reminder to myself, but I wonder if it could be a good reminder for all of us? If we’re
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This past Wednesday in the Montessori classroom, it was time to make the jumping square. The jumping square actually holds up rather well through lots of jumping (and mopping), but I peel it away from time to time because then we can add it back. Kids need to move, and I’m certainly not going to
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Mother’s Day weekend, we had two people to whom to give bouquets, and so I had the excuse to buy double the flowers for arranging. (If I’m honest, more like triple–but still cheaper than a florist, and from the heart!) Arranging flowers is really one of my favorite ways to spend time–when the environment is
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I wouldn’t call myself a gardener, more like gardener-adjacent, and either in because or in spite of this, I experience what most would call disproportionate excitement whenever 1) something grows and 2) I can use it. Grape tomatoes, jalapenos, zucchini, basil–all of it tastes better when I grew it, and I’m not ashamed to say
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Our multi-age classes are shorter than others, with less time for food prep, so the snacks have to be simple. (During smoothie week, we make it work!) This day, the task was drying the blueberries–something that seems almost like a non-job, and something that you might not even make time for at home. (Haven’t we
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(Adapted from a post to our private Instagram group from October, 2022. Session families, join to read them all…occasionally, I share an older favorite here.) You may have figured out by now that I love to talk, so it’s sometimes hard for me to take this piece of my own best parenting advice: When explaining
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**A repost from last year from our private instagram group. I noticed that I had misspelled “assumptions” on the image, and am taking this opportunity to model what I tell parents and is at the heart of Montessori: Mistakes are just an opportunity to self-correct.** Until this week, I had never put green peppers out
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There’s a lot of conversation in the Montessori community about what’s “not Montessori.” Montessori often gets what I consider to be a bad rap as “too rigid”–and to be sure, there are strong opinions among teachers about how best to follow and implement Montessori’s ideas. I personally am fairly confident about how this lives in
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the winter session schedule comes out 11/24!
