What’s on your to-do list today? Do you feel like you’re just about drowning in things that just have to be done? Do you have a list as long as your arm of things to do? And are some of the things on that list activities involving your child? A lot of writers have commented [...]
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Maria Montessori carefully developed her famous learning materials such as the pink tower and the broad staircase to help children learn the basic concepts of education via the senses. You are probably familiar with some of these materials from when you come to see your child at Friday’s Child Montessori – or else you’ve heard [...]
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When we’re expecting a new baby, we often spend a lot of time planning out the nursery and even decorating it – especially for a first baby. However, as you’ve probably noticed by now, they grow up so fast and the things that suited the needs of a baby probably don’t suit the needs of [...]
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If you’ve been looking into early childhood education at all, you may very well have heard of phonics. This is currently the “in” way of teaching children to read. Parents of children attending Friday’s Child Montessori might wonder what phonics is all about and how it works. You might also be wondering why your child [...]
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There are a lot of benefits for children if they are included in traditional family games, meaning board games and card games. You might wonder if your preschool child is too young to start playing card games, but you might be surprised. Sure, a three-year-old isn’t going to be ready to join in a game [...]
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You seem to read things in the paper on online every day about the issue of obesity and how we, as a nation, are getting fatter and unhealthier, starting in early childhood. It’s all a bit scary for a parent of pre-schoolers. How do you go about ensuring that your child won’t have health problems [...]
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Ah, the good old dressing up box. An honourable final destiny for clothes that are far too retro, too outrageous, too small or slightly damaged. Every home with pre-schoolers (and older children) should have a dressing up box somewhere. There are many educational bonuses that come from having a fancy dress box. Firstly, the children [...]
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What makes a good children’s book for parents to read to preschool children? We all know that reading to children is important – we’ve talked about this in these articles before. Reading to children helps develop their vocabulary and language skills, it’s a way of encouraging them along the journey to literacy, and it’s a [...]
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More than one parent has noticed that you spend the first few years of a child’s life waiting until they can walk and talk, and you then spend the next 15 or so years getting them to sit down and shut up (apart from a brief period during the early teen years in boys when [...]
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One of the goals of Montessori education is to help children become self-sufficient (meaning that they are able to look after themselves – being able to keep themselves in fruit and veggies from the back garden would be a plus but that’s not what we mean by self-sufficient here). We also want children to become [...]
