A Montessori Village

10/23/2024

08/31/2024

All my favorite happy birthday wishes to Maria Montessori. Thank you for everything you gave to us!

08/06/2024

“Gentle” parenting is currently the biggest problem I face as a teacher. It seems as though the advocates have a willful misunderstanding of child development. Absolutely, there is no need the yell, guilt, or shame children (and obviously not hit). However, their feelings, which they have not yet developed control or understanding of, cannot take center stage in your household and in their lives. Name the feeling, validate the feeling, but life still needs to go on if they are having feelings.

I HIGHLY recommend Jane Nelson’s books on Positive Discipline as a way to marry the good parts of “gentle” parenting with accurate child development.

“If members of Gen X can blame their high rates of depression and anxiety on latchkey parenting, and if millennials can blame their high rates of depression and anxiety on helicopter parenting, then perhaps a new generation can anticipate blaming their high rates of depression and anxiety on the overvalidation and undercorrection native to gentle parenting.”

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-harsh-realm-of-gentle-parenting?utm_campaign=falcon_mHCX&utm_source=facebook&utm_brand=tny&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&mbid=social_facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3r1WjZNU3isaEKvtM6jNkJ4P5F908fEGOBWyDlo0f5OGLGw5o4oq5pG2Y_aem_mBH6jj5bMy7SHjEcQ5vGCQ

The approach flourishes because it caters to a child’s inner life. What does it neglect?

03/23/2024

So I finally read this article, and the article itself isn’t bad, but I do think that if what the article posits, that if you parent in a Montessori way that your life with children will be idyllic is off-base. I don’t think anyone thinks that it will create a perfect home and family with no problems. But maybe I’m wrong and that is what people expect from it. What I counsel my families is that parenting in a Montessori way gets them through the chaos and emotions of children with the skills they need as adults. And it doesn’t put up roadblocks that lead to more familial problems as other parenting choices might.

I also was very annoyed that she kept calling practical life “chores”. Sorry, cleaning up after yourself isn’t your chore, it is life.

Shoutout to my friends Sara Srinivasan and Simone Davies, you represented well!

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2024/02/montessori-parenting-advice/677568/?fbclid=IwAR37vVVGSeWSXxbnUti6izxBejh19zOzg_N8-S9F6I_Byo7WPv-cOHAF9BM_aem_AbGuvJPjAWErwAV7-GgZDK8WuA89C_3OzD91cnbNHmarL9xP3rqgbR8hiLddIgswZvM

No matter how hard you work to organize a playroom, you can’t eliminate chaos or uncertainty from the task of raising kids.

03/10/2024

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/raising-kind-kids/202403/dont-want-spoiled-kids-give-them-real-responsibilities?fbclid=IwAR3AgwtnyjA40ypItmspPOV_dNjnir7HyNumrwzIHakflH9Rk9FQ1Y2SEr4_aem_AbsO52dWjzaMBdHnq4NH3XolO9mWEE5t7LU1S_Y7H6eOyhmAJ8dVRMQefTmP1VuePE8

Children develop concern for others by learning to help at home.

02/25/2024

While his posts are always great, this one in memory of Dr. Dorer is especially wonderful.

https://www.montessoriphysicaleducation.com/new-blog/the-storyteller2024/2/13?fbclid=IwAR2grM6U5h6PDopSTJNJ2rHPLg4s6hsL_dP1mP7kgBXeSXhMzMCxnNwXeF4_aem_AaQKR5NEI3psuXXhQA-0xg_bfl4OqFWYow-bgfM0uaDyfAP_dMgq-h0fWeZJ31VjHnQ

 One of the most beautiful things about a story is it endures. A story lives long past the person who created it. The story is like a child. It inherits the DNA of the person who created it. However, every person who tells the story afterward also imprints themselves on it. The story contin

02/25/2024

02/15/2024

https://amshq.org/Blog/2023-09-27-New-Meta-Study-Montessori-Education-Leads-to-Positive-Student-Outcomes?fbclid=IwAR1rCM15VgnHv2EcHuf_xPNVv6ln0FKVXeQ4xJCkTRJ2oYPe5IdAfFXAtr8_aem_AeyWv_5C1ttjBDkt6EdoykuPWRuqev5qolxS73b4Y9gJ79g9uOcVtkVpAaakKmbcedE

A recent meta-analysis of Montessori research may help put the debate to rest: Montessori does have a robust positive effect on students’ academic and non-academic outcomes.

10/22/2023

05/02/2023

When we make a child share, that's not sharing.

04/19/2023

by The Candidly Team It’s hard to pigeon-hole our parents. How do you label a single person who at one moment offered up deep doses of affection and concern and at others criticized and ignored us like we were a fly on their shoulder. Or maybe you had a parent who was more consistent. A father who