by Maren Stark Schmidt | Infant-Toddler (0 to 3), MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting
n effective, yet, counter-intuitive teaching and parenting suggestion took me a while to understand and put into use. The idea? “Don’t just do something – stand there.” Our first inclination when we see things that we think we need to stop is to jump right in and fix it. One of the interesting discoveries of […]
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by Maren Stark Schmidt | Brain Development, Family Resources, Health / Nutrition, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Psychology
All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.—Blaise Pascal (1623 -1662) “I can tell you exactly the year that my students changed,” my college professor told our class in the 1970’s. “I’d ask a question and nobody made any attempt to answer it. They thought they were watching […]
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by Maren Stark Schmidt | Family Resources, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting
s parents, we now have a choice to make regarding how we approach this paradox in our own household. How do we balance freedom and limits? When do we give a choice and when do we just make the choice? How much stuff do we have readily available in our homes, and how much more […]
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by Maren Stark Schmidt | Family Resources, MFA, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Montessori students
Guess what the number one stressor is in our families today? t doesn’t take a wild guess. Financial decisions are creating the most pressure in our homes right now. The economic changes in the past two years have affected most everyone on this planet — from the goat herder in Kashmir to the knitted-goods manufacturers […]
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by Maren Stark Schmidt | Challenging Behaviors, Family Resources, Infant-Toddler (0 to 3), Later Adolescence (15-18), Lower Elementary (6-9), MFA, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Parenting on the Same Page, Primary (3-6), Upper Elementary (9-12), Webinars / MFA
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