How to Help Kids Learn to Love Giving
by Jason Marsh During the holidays, opportunities abound to help kids understand why and how to help people in need, with food drives proliferating and countless organizations making pitches for end-of-year donations. And there’s scientific [...]
How the Outdoors Makes Your Kids Smarter
The freedom to move and play outside inspires creativity and improves brain function By Katie Arnold When I was eight years old, I spent an hour every autumn day after school shooting baskets in our [...]
One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Educators
By Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD The story of one of the most remarkable students of human learning in the 20th century is not widely known. This is a pity, partly because the story itself is [...]
If At First You Don’t Succeed…GREAT!!
By Pilar Bewley Mistakes, we make them every day. Regardless of their magnitude, they all share one common characteristic: they teach. “We learn from failure, not from success,” wrote Bram Stoker in Dracula. Mistakes are [...]
Three Important Points for Toddler and Primary Parents
1. Quiet and Peacefulness Essential Montessori called the classroom a “children’s house,” a warm and inviting place scaled to the child’s size. Our job is to protect and nurture this special place. Please help us [...]
Seven Harmful Traits
by Maren Stark Schmidt Ever notice how a word, a phrase, a quote or a book title keeps popping up? Over the past couple of years the following Gandhi quotes keeps showing up in my [...]
Interruption Disruption: Why You Should Never Interrupt a Child at Work
By Catherine McTamaney Imagine it: you’re at your work, fully absorbed in the task in front of you. Your attention is focused on your project. You’ve finally hit a pace and you’re getting it done. [...]
Empathy? In Denmark they’re learning it in school
Denmark is one of the happiest countries in the world. This is according to the UN’s World Happiness Report, an important survey that since 2012 classifies the happiness of 155 countries in the world, and [...]
Why Simplifying May Protect Our Children’s Mental Health
By Tracy Gillett When my Dad was growing up he had one sweater each winter. One. Total. He remembers how vigilantly he cared for his sweater. If the elbows got holes in them my Grandma [...]
Let Children Get Bored Again
Boredom teaches us that life isn’t a parade of amusements. More important, it spawns creativity and self-sufficiency. By Pamela Paul “I’m bored.” It’s a puny little phrase, yet it has the power to fill parents [...]