Joyce St. GiermaineJoyce St. Giermaine is Executive Director of The Montessori Foundation. Her two children attended Montessori school from age two through the eighth grade. She lives in Florida with her husband, Tim Seldin, and assorted dogs, horses, hairless cats, and donkeys.
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” Mother Teresa My six-year-old grandson, Jackson, frequently goes into his “harmony” position. We don’t know where he learned this. He claims not to know. Maybe this is just another validation of Maria Montessori’s advice to “follow the child.” […]
