10/06/2019
This may be long but totally worth the read!! Follow to find out how my littles help me with laundry 🧺 , feeding the cats 🐱, the dishwasher, vacuuming...the sky is the limit!!
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Excerpt from my 📖eBook (releasing this October) The BASICS ~ Bringing Montessori Home: Birth - Age 6.
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Little children love to help and they love feeling capable, useful and purposeful. "Allowing" children to contribute to everyday practical life activities (PLA) around the house, creates a sense of purpose and belonging to a family unit, making them feel important and seen! Make sure to offer child-sized tools to help them succeed, while they are developing independence and responsibility!
⠀ “The essence of independence is to be able to do something for one’s self. Adults work to finish a task, but the child works in order to grow, and is working to create the adult, the person that is to be. Such experience is not just play... it is work he must do in order to grow up.” Maria Montessori.
⠀ “REAL WORK" PLA for :
•FOOD PREP:
- washing fruits & vegetables
- cutting fruits & veggies with a child-safe knife
- pouring milk from a child-sized pitcher
- sorting cutlery (please remove sharp knives) - setting a table for meals, clearing the table, washing dishes
- serving oneself a snack from an accessible area
- measuring & pouring ingredients, stirring, kneading
•AROUND THE HOUSE:
- wiping spills or wiping surfaces with a rag
- dusting, mopping or sweeping the floor
- washing a table with a brush
- folding small towels
- putting away toys
- loading/unloading laundry etc
•SELF-CARE:
- getting dressed (zipping up a jacket, pulling the pants up/or down, buttoning a shirt, fastening shoes)
- washing hands, brushing hair, blowing a nose, brushing teeth
•CARE of the ENVIRONMENT:
- caring for pets, household plants ...
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