The Child Who is Not Peaceful
In Montessori, we believe in each child’s innate goodness, their potential for peace and grace. How do we approach the small child who is anything but – the child who hits and hurts others?
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Surviving the Strong-Willed, Stubborn Child
“Children should be seen, not heard” is a proverb dating more than five centuries ago, yet it is an attitude many of us still subscribe to today. What to do with the child who, in their need to be heard, is willing to shout and fight?
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In Praise of the Puddle
This week, we take a break from the Communication Series to consider some of the most wonderful educational materials that Mother Nature provides our children.
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Parenting Siblings
How to best encourage a loving and harmonious relationship between siblings is one of the most pressing questions for many parents of multiples.
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Weathering Emotional Storms
Screaming, stomping, angry tears and tantrums – no parent’s favourite thing, but a part of raising a child, nonetheless. What Montessori lessons can we apply to managing tumultuous emotions in a child?
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Saying No to Your Child
The story of humanity is a story of compromise and cooperation: each of us adjusting our behaviour in order to live in harmony. We learn to do so, first and foremost, in childhood, from our parents.
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Speaking the Child’s Language
The vast majority of urgent questions we receive – often from desperate, at-wits’-end parents – are all to do with communication with the child. How do we make ourselves understood? And how do we understand what the child is, with equal urgency, trying to tell us?
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Beyond Markers and Crayons
After discussing children’s art and its importance at length, as well as the character of graphomotor development , it’s time to offer some concrete and hand-on tips for art activities and exercises.
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Developing Graphomotor Skills
The physical act of writing – using pens and paper to create marks that relay words, concepts and messages – is a uniquely human and tremendously complex activity. Increasingly, it is also one that modern children struggle with. Can Montessori help?
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