Walk into a Montessori classroom for young children and you may see something that seems a little surprising. A young child carefully pours water between two small pitchers on a simple tray. A child may be carefully pouring water from one small pitcher into another....

  Your child comes home excited about numbers. Naturally, you want to help. So you pull out some paper and show your child the way you learned to add. Or perhaps you begin teaching letter names, handwriting, multiplication, or borrowing and carrying. You are...

  Dear Cathie, I like many parts of the Montessori system, but I am confused about why children are supposed to be quiet and calm all the time. When I watch my children at home, they seem to need to scream, run, and jump almost constantly. It seems that...