Parenting Advice from America’s Worst Mom
October 30, 2022 Here’s a lovely little letter I just received that ended thusly: ….People like you that just send their kids out for the vultures of the world because … Read More
A Morning Observing in a Montessori Classroom
October 30, 2022 It is about 9:00 am, half an hour after the children have come inside from the playground and begun their work. I just arrived at the school … Read More
I Am a Montessori Geek
October 30, 2022 I am a geek. Many people use geek as an insult, but I use geek to denote an intense fascination and enjoyment of any particular subject. Common … Read More
I Am Here To Help
October 30, 2022 It begins with the increasingly noisy tap–tap–tapping of brush on a bucket, that first signal of digging in and lying low and simultaneously signaling readiness for the … Read More
Making Space
October 30, 2022 I come from a HUGE extended family. Growing up, my Mom, Brother Kevin, and I lived with my grandparents. There were thirteen of us in a house … Read More
Children Centered Learning – Learning Centered Children
October 30, 2022 Sebastian was a very particular child. Prone to believing he was right and making his opinions known to all, he was a student for whom daily struggles … Read More
Only in a Montessori Classroom
October 30, 2022 I recently visited a Montessori school in Arizona and had the opportunity to observe the toddler classroom. On this particular morning, there were eight children present, the … Read More
Independence: The Birthplace of Self Esteem
October 30, 2022 Lacy’s brother was born in Texas a month after she turned three. Mom, knowing she’d have her hands full with a newborn, asked her husband to take … Read More
A Father and his Little Daughter
October 30, 2022 A Spontaneous Observation and Meditation A father followed his fourteen-month-old daughter around the school library, the kitchen, and my classroom. With profound attention and absolute focus on … Read More
If At First You Don’t Succeed… Great!
Mistakes: we make them every day. Regardless of their magnitude, they all share one common characteristic: they teach. “We learn from failure, not from success,” wrote Bram Stoker in Dracula. … Read More