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Toddlers Love Exploring Outdoors—Especially With Their Senses

Posted: April 19, 2019

“The training and sharpening of the senses has the obvious advantage of enlarging the field of perception and of offering an over more solid foundation for intellectual growth. The intellect builds up its store of practical ideas through contact with, and exploration of its environment. Without such concepts the intellect would lack precision and inspiration

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Prepared In The Kitchen for Practical Life

By Julie Mitaro

Posted: February 7, 2019

“But in our specially prepared environments we see them all at once fix themselves upon some task, and then their excited fantasies and their restless movements disappear altogether; a calm, serene child, attached to reality, begins to work out his elevation through work. Normalisation has been achieved.” ~ Maria Montessori, The Secret of Childhood Children love

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Sweet and Sensorial Treasures Are Found Peeling a Clementine

By Julie Mitaro

Posted: October 29, 2018

“The sensory education which prepares for the accurate perception of all the differential details in the qualities of things, is therefore the foundation of the observation of things and of phenomena which present themselves to our sense;” ~ Maria Montessori, The Advanced Montessori Method Simple as it may seem, peeling a clementine is a rewarding

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Tags: Early learning, fostering independence, Hands-on learning, Montessori, Montessori activity, Montessori at Home, Montessori kitchen activities, Montessori practical life, Sensorial, Sensorial experience

When One Door Closes, SHOW The Child How to Open It

By Julie Mitaro

Posted: September 17, 2018

“When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell, Montessori supporter and founder of the Montessori Educational Association in 1913 . Young children are naturally attracted to things that

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Practical Life and Caring for Plants

By Julie Mitaro

Posted: August 29, 2018

“Children have an anxious concern for living beings, and therefore the satisfaction of this instinct fills them with delight. It is therefore easy to interest them in taking care of plants and especially of animals.” ~ Maria Montessori, The Discovery of the Child Caring for plants, both indoors and outdoors, is part of our daily

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Allow The Child Time to Be a Quiet Observer

By Julie Mitaro

Posted: August 28, 2018

“The child is a worker and a diligent observer. He looks straight at things; he stares at them for a long time; he is interested in learning all he can about his environment. Perhaps he is staring at a flower, absorbing its image. This work gives him happiness and peace because, in doing so, he

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Tags: Absorbent mind, childhood experiences, Early learning, innate sense of wonder, Montessori, Montessori at Home, Montessori learning, Natural development, thoughtful observer, Wonder

Natural Urges Explain The Child’s Need for Movement

By Julie Mitaro

Posted: September 7, 2017

“Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.” ~ Maria Montessori, The Child in the Family Children are born with innate urges to guide them as they gain control of their muscles and senses. Especially in the first three years of life, they are unconscious learners

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The Prepared Nest in the Spotlight

By Julie Mitaro

Posted: July 14, 2017

“On every teacher and every parent, I urge not great instruction, but humility and simplicity in dealing with small children. Their lives are fresh, without rivalry or external ambitions, it takes so little to make them happy, to let them work in their own way towards the normal development of the men and women they

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A Love for Good Foods and Food Preferences Begins Before Birth!

By Julie Mitaro

Posted: June 23, 2017

Picky Eaters There are countless articles about picky eaters, food battles and how to get children to eat healthy foods. Many parents resort to sneaking vegetables into cakes and bribing children with toys and trips to the park. Tears and tantrums can be sparked over a single green bean placed on a primarily white food

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Rewarding Time and Cherished Moments with Your Grandchild

By Julie Mitaro

Posted: May 14, 2017

I’m sure Lesley Stahl’s peers are as she describes in The New York Times Opinion page today: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/opinion/sunday/grandbabies-the-great-reward-for-aging.html?ref=opinion. Most have plenty of money, time and interest in their grandkids. However, there’s a much larger percentage of grandparents that also love their grandchildren and are willing to help out as they can, but they do not

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