If you’ve been around the Montessori world for a while now, you may have heard about the planes of development. Maria Montessori noticed certain human tendencies and characteristics in a wave of phases that she termed the Four Planes of Development. Each plane has its own goals and behaviors as a way of continuing along […]

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Every so often, I ask readers to submit post topic suggestions, and this one came up recently: What our after school routine looks like and how to support learning/homework the Montessori way at home. I am not sure how other Montessori families do it, but this is what our Montessori-inspired after school routine looks like: […]

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For as long as I’ve worked as a Montessori Parenting & Home Education Coach, I’ve noticed a theme when it comes to parents trying to figure out how to handle a toddler and an older sibling at the same time: How to keep younger siblings from messing with older siblings’ materials.  I think they’re expecting […]

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This topic was requested a while ago, and I’ve put off actually writing it because it’s such a difficult topic! I think we are naturally wired to compare things — we often use connections we make to try to figure out the world around us, so of course that happens in our parenting! When you […]

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