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Setting Limits It’s Not too Late! The Hows & Whys to Setting Limits
What Are Limits? Limits tell your family under what condition you are willing or unwilling to do something. They tell your family where you “draw the line.” They tell what you will or will not tolerate. Their purpose is to take care of you. Limits are not designed to...
Maria Montessori: How It All Began Introduction to The Montessori Way
In 1907, an Italian physician was invited to open a child-care facility for fifty preschool-aged children in a section of Rome that was avoided and neglected because of its oppressive poverty and crime. The children’s parents worked sixteen or more hours a day. In the...
Montessori’s Gentle Approach To Discipline
Many parents believe that the word discipline means to punish. In reality, it means to teach. In a Montessori-inspired home, parents are empathetic, caring, and respect children as real and separate human beings. However, children also need to develop a sense of...
Helping Children Cope: Tips For Talking About Tragedy
After a tragedy, you might feel helpless—but your child needs your support. Here’s help knowing what to say. When a tragedy—such as a natural disaster, mass shooting, or terrorist attack—occurs, it can be hard to talk to your child about what happened. How do you...
Letter from the Editor
It has been a long, challenging few months for many of us in the Americas and around the world. Along with an unusually active and violent hurricane season, earthquakes, wildfires, and flooding, we have watched in horror as gun violence, terrorism, and the threat of...
Montessori at Home from Birth to Three: Why and How?
Eighty-Five Percent Of The Brain Is Formed By Age Three The core structure of the brain is formed in the first three years. By age three, the brain has established a pattern of processing information that will be used throughout life. As such, a child’s early...
BOOK REVIEWS
My Daughters are Smart! Written by Anita B. Adhikary Illustrated by Blythe Russo This book is an interesting alphabet book full of empowering words for boys and girls but is focused on girls —young and old, culturally diverse, interacting with each other and with men...
Montessori Journey: Our First Day
I remember clearly the crunch of the gravel under the tires as I pulled into the NewGate parking lot for the first time. Dylan was eighteen months old and I was in the middle of a divorce. We had never spent a day apart, and I was starting a new job. I didn’t know it...
Pebblecreek Montessori is Rebuilding Warriors
Community service is very important for our students: it engages children in civic-minded activities from a young age. It provides young people with the sense of being a part of a community, teaches them responsibility and empathy, and also empowers them. When...
Tomorrow’s Child Magazine – November, 2017
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