Self-care is one of the important learning strands in Montessori education, which is why you’ll usually find a water jug that children can use to pour themselves a drink in many Montessori early childhood centres. And you’ll also find activities that are designed to help children learn and practice a range of skills that are [...]
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Easter time comes at the wrong time of the year for us living on the Gold Coast. All those European traditions involving fluffy yellow chicks, daffodils and the like seem rather irrelevant, in spite of all their “new life” symbolism. And there’s only so much chocolate you can really give a child without making him [...]
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Often, we don’t think about much more than the rubbish bin (or, better yet, the recycling bin) when we’ve finished reading the paper. But if you have young children, an old newspaper is a useful item – possibly even more useful for what you can do with it than it was when it was current [...]
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A lot of parents whose children go to Friday’s Child Montessori like a good game of cards – I think most Australians like playing Five Hundred, and I doubt there’s a single household that doesn’t have at least one pack tucked away somewhere. These days, playing cards are considered perfectly respectable, and you’d be hard [...]
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Some people walk to bring their children to their Montessori early childhood centre; others don’t. But most parents of young children will walk somewhere at some time, even if it’s just down to the corner store. And it’s important to teach your children about safety – and keep them safe – when you do. Montessori [...]
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Sometimes, it seems as if the requirements of setting up your home to assist in your preschooler’s Montessori learning conflict with the requirements of having a home that’s safe for children. How do you reconcile these two important demands? If you’ve got a crawling baby or a toddler who has a lively intelligence in the [...]
