by RB Fast | MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting
s parents we all have the same primary, long-term concern for our children: we want them to be successful people who lead fulfilling lives. As a society, we have collectively defined those qualities that we most admire in others, and we have used them to define what makes a person ‘successful.’ Some of those qualities […]
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by Tim Seldin | MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Montessori students
ll of the usual arguments that parents and mainstream teachers use to justify homework miss the point. Homework does not teach children responsibility, time-management skills, self-discipline, or more of what they should be learning during the day. What it teaches is how to put up with a job that they dislike. Far too many […]
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by Tim Seldin | MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting, Montessori Teachers
mericans tend to believe that children who are successful at school are smart and assume that intelligence is something with which one is born. In the United States, parents often say something along the lines of, “I may be biased, but I really believe my child is very smart.” Many a mother and father hope […]
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by Joyce St. Giermaine | Book Reviews, Emotional Intelligence (EQ), Health / Nutrition, MFA, Montessori Education, Montessori Family Life, Montessori Parenting
We all know that play is good for children. But research shows that it is integral to the development of their brains and that human beings are, in fact, designed by nature, to flourish through play. One Montessori myth is that Montessori students are not encouraged...
by Tim Seldin | Adolescence, Early Adolescence (12-15), Later Adolescence (15-18), MFA, Montessori Administrators, Montessori Curriculum, Montessori Education, Montessori Middle School, Montessori Parenting, Montessori Secondary / High School, Montessori students, Upper Elementary (9-12)
Montessori Extends through High School veryone remembers their high school years. Few of us want to remember middle school. And no one, except perhaps our mothers, remembers the preschool that we attended until we were old enough to go to ‘real school.’ But wait, that may be true for most of us, but it is […]
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