Parenting presents numerous challenges, growing in complexity as children age. These parenting resources provide guidance for dilemmas you may be facing. Several articles are from Montessori Life which is the American Montessori Society’s parent magazine. The guides on independence are original documents from TMA.
In the Montessori Classroom
Early Childhood – Multi-Age Classrooms
Montessori classrooms foster life-long leadership skills. In each mixed age classroom, the older students have the opportunity to become like mentors to the younger students.
Early Childhood – Dressing Frames
Early Childhood – Dressing Frames The purpose of the dressing frames is to
Early Childhood – Circle of Life: Ceremony of Death
Early Childhood – Circle of Life: Ceremony of Death Celebrations and rituals are
Toddler & Early Childhood – Caring for the Courtyard
Toddler & Early Childhood – Caring for the Courtyard The purpose of the
Early Childhood – Knobbed Puzzles
The Knobbed Puzzles, like many Montessori materials, have layers of engagement. From a child’s first experience of manipulating the knobbed pieces, to practicing literacy by reading labels, the knobbed puzzles are a well-loved material in the Montessori classroom.
Early Childhood – Comparison
The Cosmic Nesting Boxes are an important material for Montessori Cosmic Education. The purpose of this material is to teach children how a place exists within a larger place.
Early Childhood – Painting
For the 3 to 6 year old child, painting is a way to strengthen muscles and refine motor skills. It improves concentration and coordination.
Early Childhood – Sandpaper Letters
The Sandpaper Letters are iconic, pink or blue oversized cursive letters in rough sandpaper for a child to take to a table and practice tracing and pairing with a known phonetic sound.
Early Childhood – Broad Stair
One of our favorites, the Broad Stair or Brown Stair is a constant
Independence Guides
Montessori Life
Separation: The Beginning of Letting Go
Your child needs your support and encouragement to learn to separate. When she took her first steps, you held out your arms, smiling and urging her to walk toward you. If he fell, you encouraged him to get back up and try again. The same is true with separating!
Bringing Montessori
Home
The gifts we can give our children are adequate time, an economy of age-appropriate and well-communicated expectations, and trust in their innate capabilities, which are the same principles that support Montessori’s educational philosophy!
Starting Each Day: Tips to Get out the Door On Time
It’s possible to make the morning routine a team effort, rather than a competition with parents doing all the heavy lifting. The keys are to be prepared, give yourself plenty of time, and allow your children to be independent.
Your Smartphone or Your Life
The device’s ubiquitous presence at the dinner table, on the nature walk, and during drive time and downtime signals to sons and daughters that they must compete with these inanimate objects for their parents’ attention or simply resign themselves to the shared attention.
Talking Respectfully to Your Children
We often jump to conclusions and step in without taking into account what our child might be doing, thinking, or feeling. Put down the phone, turn off the television, watch, and look into your child’s eyes when you speak.
Creating Emotional Safety: Tantrums & Crying
We don’t need to control children; we need to control our own feelings and our own behavior. Our job is to guide them, to be with them, and to support and enable them to feel safe while they release what they need to release.
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