As Parenthood Becomes Ever More Hands-On,

One Teacher and Parent Calls For an End to ‘Instagram Perfect Moments’

Modern Parenting Is Overwhelming, Expensive and Perhaps Self-Defeating. How We Parents Can Manage the Demands via The Montessori Method

Over the past 60 years, parenting has become far more intensive. From a decidedly ‘hands off’ approach during the 1960s and 70s, today’s parents are spending far more time, money and attention on raising children--and far less on themselves.

Whereas kids enjoyed unguided and imaginative free play, today’s working mothers are spending as much time taking care of their children as stay-at-home moms did then.

Let’s Grow Independent Children One Neighborhood Block at a Time via The Montessori Method

Mom and Dad: Have You Prepared to Let Your Child Go Outside Alone? It’s Called Free Range Parenting!

How can we parents prepare our kids to go outside alone and play without our supervision?

Why Are Chores Important? A vital component of the Montessori Method is teaching children to become independent and self-reliant. As a result, Montessori teachers encourage students to do for themselves at a very early age and then progress to helping others. Chores for children become a vital part of their training—especially when the family is home.

Don’t Make Your Kids the Center of Your Universe

Lawnmower and Helicopter Parents: Please, Don’t Let Your Child Rule Your Life!

Mom and Dad: Help Your Children Grow by Letting Them Find Their Own Strengths

How can we parents set our children up for success? Specifically, what strategies and tactics can we employ to help them learn to control their own behavior and consequences?

Tools to Help Your Kids Recognize and Respond Constructively to Jealous Feelings

Jealousy is part of our nature. Young children especially are vulnerable and capable of spreading rumors, lies, gossip and half-truths. Their behavior is about insecurity, fear or competition, says Lea Waters, author of ‘The Strength Switch.’ “It’s a feeling of I’m not enough…something is lacking.”

How You Can Teach Girls to Build Each Other Up Rather Than Tear Each Other Apart

Empowerment, Support and Encouragement of Each Other Can Win the Day

The elementary children have now reached the age where they can reason.  They are able to distinguish between fact and fantasy.  The children can make use of their imaginations to help them explore things long ago - things that are beyond the senses.  They can also see into the future.  Imagination is the ability to picture material things in their absence.  All it needs is previous experience.  Experiences gathered in the primary years provide a foundation for continuing development and understanding that happens in the elementary years.  Children can imagine a tropical rain forest even th

The Montessori Method Teaches Real Life Skills Early In Childhood