October 2019
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 [...]
September 2019
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 [...]
August 2019
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. [...]
July 2019
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 [...]
June 2019
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 [...]