Toddler Program

Maria Montessori emphasized the importance of consistency in a child's environment as a foundation for healthy development, and this becomes especially crucial during toilet training and toilet learning.

If your child is working on how to use the toilet, or potty, know that routine and predictability are key.

Montessori Tips to Understand and Empower Your Toddler

Toilet learning differs from Toilet training. Child toilet training is adult-directed; toilet learning is when the child is involved in their learning. Toilet training may involve time pressure on your child which seems to be a quick fix but may have consequences.

In the Montessori approach, ensuring that toddlers get enough sleep and establish a healthy bedtime routine is essential for their emotional, cognitive, and physical development. Here’s why both bedtime consistency and adequate sleep are so important:

What happens at school when a child misbehaves? Do you do timeouts? What if my child bites?

Good questions!

The Importance of Order and Consistency for Toddlers

Have you ever wondered what causes your child to have a meltdown when you take him/her to the store after school? Does your child ever have tantrums that seem to come out of nowhere?

In the Montessori method for toddlers, freedom of movement is a key element that supports their development. It recognizes that young children learn best when they can move freely and engage with their environment in an active, hands-on way.

Toddlers very much enjoy learning life skills. Activities, which up until now have been going on around them but which they can now do themselves, are seemingly irresistible: getting dressed, preparing snack, setting the table, cleaning a spill, sweeping the floor, etc. The Toddler classroom provides the opportunity for the toddler to acquire the skills to “do it by myself”.

You can help at home by always keeping an eye out for ways to enable your child to do things for themselves, Here are a few ideas:

Art for the adult is considered "self-expression." It can be a way to express one's feelings, or perhaps for the one appreciating it, a way to look at the world through the artist's eye. Toddlers tend to do art for different reasons. A toddler often witnesses cause and effect instead of trying to make "something." Sometimes, at around three years old, you will notice a child making more deliberate, intentional marks on their paper. Often you will see circles emerging. Their art usually progresses from here to stick figures and so on. It's fun to watch your child's progression.