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Notes from the Hive: Honey Bees Help Us Prepare Our Home Environment

Notes from the Hive: Honey Bees Help Us Prepare Our Home Environment

Honey bees in our world are facing a similar crisis as the children in our communities. We often put our own human preferences above those of the bee, much like we tend to put adult preferences above the needs of the child. In this webcast we will use the honey bee hive as a model […]

Notes from the Hive: Honey Bees Help Us Prepare Our Home Environment

Webinar: Understanding Your Child: Sensitivities Birth to Six Years Old

Children experience “sensitive periods” when they are consumed with a natural desire to develop certain skills or grow in specific areas. This webinar will explore these periods and how you can support your child’s natural, spontaneous development in each domain.

Book Review:  Baby Animals & Things That Go

Book Review: Baby Animals & Things That Go

Baby Animals and Things That Go! by Amy Pixton & Stephan Lomp hese two little books cannot be torn, they don’t fall apart if they get wet, and can be cleaned without damaging the pages. I particularly enjoyed Baby Animals because the pages are not cluttered with too many illustrations for young eyes. I also […]

Book Review:  Respecting Babies – A New Look at Magda Gerber’s RIE Approach

Book Review: Respecting Babies – A New Look at Magda Gerber’s RIE Approach

Respecting Babies:  A New Look at Magda Gerber’s RIE Approach by Ruth Anne Hammond have been a big proponent of the RIE (Resources for Infant Educarers) approach to caring for infants and toddlers, and now we have Ruth Hammond taking a new look at the method. It’s refreshing, renewing, and reminding all of us of […]

Book Review:  Baby Massage / The Calming Power of Touch

Book Review: Baby Massage / The Calming Power of Touch

Baby Massage: The Calming Power of Touch By Dr. Alan Heath and
Nicki Bainbridge
 his a great little book for parents of newborn babies and older. It’s the kind of book I wish I had when my children were born. I actually did have a baby massage book but it wasn’t as easy to learn the […]

Book Review:  Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons

Book Review: Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons

Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons Story by Eric Litwin
 Art by James Dean
(creator of Pete the Cat) hat a cute story for young ones! The story writer throws in a song which repeats as the buttons pop, some rhyming, and a little subtraction lesson as well. Oh, and, the lesson: things come […]

Book Review: A Kissing Hand for Chester Raccoon

Book Review: A Kissing Hand for Chester Raccoon

By Audrey Penn Illustrated by Barbara L. Gibson his is a little board book with a whimsical story about a young raccoon who doesn’t want to leave his mommy and go to school. Mom kisses Chester’s palm and tells him that he’ll always have her with him. He can hold his palm to his cheek […]

Book Review: Miss You Like Crazy

Book Review: Miss You Like Crazy

Miss You Like Crazy Written by Pamela Hall Illustrated by Jennifer A. Bell his is another nicely illustrated, fanciful story. The main characters are squirrels–a mother and child. They are dressed in human clothes, they speak as humans, and they do human things like going to work and going to school. The idea of the […]

Montessori 101: What Teachers Wish Parents Knew

Montessori 101: What Teachers Wish Parents Knew

t a teachers’ conference a couple of years ago, we broke into groups to answer the following question: What are the most important ideas you’d like to communicate to parents of the children you teach? Here are the thoughts from over one hundred teachers and school administrators. Respect the work of your child. Children are […]

Montessori 101: Education… For Infants?

Montessori 101: Education… For Infants?

hildren are astonishing in the sense that their minds are like an ever-growing, expanding, and curious wonder. When parents think of education for their child, it is a surprise that education can start as soon as right after birth! Even more surprising is that education can expand beyond the ABC’s and 123’s. Education, such as […]

Montessori at Home from Birth to Three:  Why and How?

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...
Notes from the Hive: Honey Bees Help Us Prepare Our Home Environment

Webinar: We Can’t Get Out of the House on Time!#!#!#

Do you struggle everyday with getting ready and out of the house on time for school, work, religious services, visiting friends and relatives? From her years of parenting, teaching, and administering a school Lorna McGrath has lots of tips for parents and teachers to make any getting ready time less of a struggle and more […]

Webcast: Infant Toddlers Montessori Education

Webcast: Infant Toddlers Montessori Education

This week, Kathy Leitch will explore the amazing world of Infant-Toddler Montessori Education and the process of establishing a new program or enhancing one that you may have running, Kathy is an Infant-Toddler educator and is the Educational Director of the Center for Guided Montessori Studies’ Infant-Toddler Montessori Teacher Education Program.

Webinar:  How to Raise an Amazing Child

Webinar: How to Raise an Amazing Child

Author, Tim Seldin, talks about the 2nd edition of his practical guide to parenting the Montessori Way called How to Raise an Amazing Child. In this new edition Tim introduces some new topics of interest to parents.

Creating an Indoor Playground for Your Infant

Creating an Indoor Playground for Your Infant

  Lorna will show you how to create an indoor play yard for your baby or your grandbaby. When the little one starts to move around on his own, it’s time to create a space for him that is safe, engaging, and fun!