The Portland Montessori Collaborative

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Peace Culture Music Workshop Daniel Scruggs presents Peace, Culture Music An interactive professional development experience for Montessori educators Details and Location Saturday June 8th, 9am - 1:00 pm Portland Montessori Collaborative, 4817 SW 53rd Ave, Portland OR 97221 (classrooms open/tour included) Coffee/Tea/Contin...

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PDXMC Food Curriculum This is "PDXMC Food Curriculum" by Elijah Hasan on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Join Mali Arias, a Montessori teacher trainer, parent educator and licensed play therapist for kids located in Portland for a live webinar.

Parenting in Crisis Live Workshop with Q & A

Love this graphic! Relationships involve two people whose needs are both important. The relationship children develop with their parents are a template upon which all future relationships are built. To teach children their needs matter above all else actually does them a disservice in their future relationships.

It is unkind to ignore our own needs, wants, and boundaries. It is not only unkind to us, but also to the people we neglect ourselves in order to serve. ⁣⁣⁣
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Unconsciously, this sews resentment into our relationships with them. With children, we are more likely to have thoughts like “I’ve given up so much for you!” and “I bend over backward to give you what you want. Why can’t you give me what I want?” and “I swear if I have to hear that song one more time I’m going to freak out.” This makes it difficult to show up with kindness and patience.⁣⁣⁣
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Parenting is about creating a relationship with another person. By constantly ignoring our wants, we essentially erase ourselves from the relationship, preventing us from honest, authentic connection. ⁣⁣⁣
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This makes us more likely to fall into manipulative patterns like distraction (Oh look! Did you see that blue bird? Will you please forget about what you just asked me for?) or lying (Oh no, the radio’s broken. Guess we can’t listen to wheels on the bus anymore ever again for the rest of our lives).⁣⁣⁣
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Children deserve to engage with a parent who is free of resentment. Honestly communicating our needs allows us to be fully present.⁣⁣⁣
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What do you feel you’re not allowed to want? 👇🏽⁣
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Raising Antiracist Kids: Ibram X. Kendi with Derecka Purnell An AntiRacist Baby book launch: Ibram X. Kendi in conversation with Derecka Purnell on empowering the next generation of changemakers.

Having a choice about when to talk to your child about racism is a privilege.

It’s Past Time to Talk about Racism with Kids - PDX Parent We can no longer wait for children to reach a certain age to learn how to be anti-racist.

Wear the mask.

Study: 100% face mask use could crush second, third COVID-19 wave We've all heard it many times: Wear a face covering - indoors, outdoors, on trains and buses. At work, in the supermarket and at church. But now a new modeling study out of Cambridge and Greenwich universities suggests that face masks may be even more important than originally thought in preventing....

Let’s be anti-racist parents.

Gratitude for you, Emmanuel Acho for having this Uncomfortable Conversation. I appreciate you helping me understand.

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man Emmanuel Acho sits down to have an “uncomfortable conversation” with white America, in order to educate and inform on racism, system racism, social injustice...

June 9
12:30 pm pacific

Talking to Children About Race and Racism | PBS KIDS for Parents Join parents, educators and experts in this live event for an important conversation on how to talk with young children about racial injustice and violence against Black people.

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Racism and Violence: Using Your Power as a Parent to Support Children Aged Two to Five This resource provides thoughts and guidelines for talking about the complex issues of racism and equality in age-appropriate ways with children aged two to five years of age.