“Follow the Child” is a Montessori phrase that people tend to throw around, but what does it actually mean? How do we apply it in our day-to-day lives? A few months ago, I took a poll on Instagram asking people to name some Montessori Buzzwords, and “Follow the Child” was the number one answer when […]

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Every month, my small group coaching community gets to request a printable material that I will create just for them [and often will add to my Etsy shop later]. For April, they asked for some steam locomotive and airplane anatomy cards… but once I got started I just couldn’t stop, so I added a few […]

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If you have a new writer, you’ve likely noticed that some of the words she’s writing use very creative spelling choices. This is called invented spelling, and it’s a natural part of writing development! As children are just beginning to learn phonetics, it makes sense that they would write words the way they sound phonetically […]

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Kids need mental health days too. Imagine a generation that knows when they need to take a break to recharge, and then gives themselves the permission to actually do it. We can raise that generation. Human beings were not designed to be constantly at the top of our game — and yet work culture in […]

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Kids start reading at WILDLY different ages, so it’s really important to not compare your child’s reading journey to that of your other child or the neighbor down the street or the mom bragging about it on Instagram. I get it — it’s exciting to watch your kid start to read, and we want it […]

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