If you haven’t seen the 12-minute video Montessori: Planting the Seeds of Learning by the Montessori Foundation, I highly recommend watching it. If you’ve seen it before, I recommend watching it again. In the video, Tim Seldin, president of the Montessori Foundation and author of How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way, and…
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How to Make a Treasure Basket for Your Baby
If you’re pregnant, have a baby, or are expecting a new grandchild, this is the perfect time to make something found in Montessori infant-toddler programs – a treasure basket. A treasure basket is simple and inexpensive to create. It contains a number of items found in your home and in nature. (Try to avoid plastic.)…
How to Set Up a Montessori Preschool Classroom at Home
Montessori education works perfectly for preschoolers. It works perfectly for other ages as well, but it’s easiest to find materials for home use at the preschool level. And, according to Maria Montessori, the years before age 6 are the most important: …the most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but…
Teach Me to Do It Myself (Book Review)
Teach Me to Do It Myself: Montessori Activities for You and Your Child By Maja Pitamic 176 pp. Barron’s Last week I said that if I could recommend one educational book for parents of children ages 5 and under, it would be How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way by Tim Seldin. If…
How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way (Book Review)
How to Raise an Amazing Child the Montessori Way By Tim Seldin 192 pp. DK Publishing If I could recommend one educational book to parents of children ages 5 and under, what would it be? After thinking about all the wonderful books I’ve read, one book stands out as the book I would recommend to any…
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I'm Deb Chitwood. My header photo models are my children, Christina, at 1 1/2, my son, Will, at 3, and Christina again at 16. Christina is now 22, and Will is 27. Please see the About Me page for more information about my family and me. Please see the About Montessori page for information about Montessori. -
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