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Teaching Children To Be Careful

Safety rules exist to teach people how to do dangerous things carefully. Come see how to successfully scaffold responsibilty for your child.

Keeping Active Play Peaceful

Come spend some time looking at how active play fits into our "property dictates behavior" schema. This is the dynamic ownership playbook.

Teaching Children to Share

It would be incredibly easy to slap a "7 ways to stop sibling rivalry" title on here as a gimmicky hook, but it wouldn't be the whole story.

Navigating Sibling Rivalry

Preventing sibling rivalry begins with recognizing where the boundaries and needs between people begin and end.

What Should I Do With Unwanted Gifts?

An ungrateful heart is just as damaging as a brain that has had its dopamine pathway hijacked. So how do you walk this road?

We See Tools, Not Objects

I am going to give you a new tool in less than five minutes.

How to help a frustrated child.

I model being right but ineffectual. I model being wrong with patience. I model how LONG perseverance is needed.

Observe the Child

There is so much that is packed into that little word observe. Isn't language amazing?!

How do you incorporate Reggio inspired learning into elementary homeschool?

What is Reggio inspired learning?

Birthday Gifts for a 1 Year Old

You made it!! Congratulations! That first year of parenthood can be so overwhelming and so wonderfully joyous. You have made it through...

Surviving quarantine with small children.

I can't even begin to imagine what life is like for some of you. There you were, making gains at work. Climbing ladders and generally...

All the steps! How do you teach a child to read?

Teaching a child to read 'from scratch' can be a scary adventure! I break it down for you here. You can do this!!

Puzzles!! A giant list of must haves!

Puzzles we love!

The Ultimate List of Books to Sing

Years and years ago before the home day care, babies, and weird obsession with homeschooling, I was an elementary music teacher. I taught...

Books To Dump the Grump

One of my lovely children has my temper. When he struggles with anger, it floods his body until his entire limbic system has been...

Learning to Ride a Bike: 5 Easy Steps

Teaching your child to ride a bike can be a great big to-do! Or it can be organic and entertaining. The devil is in the details. Option...

Sensitivity to walking. And climbing and throwing and jumping and ...

Sensitivity to walking is my favorite. Hands down. No contest. And yet, it is the one that I know the least about in terms of Dr....

Sensitivity to order-- Providing structure without losing your sanity

As my fearsome foursome get closer to their second birthday, the atmosphere of the day is taking on new colors. We are mostly past the...

Sensitivity to Social Aspects: What Maria Montessori Missed

Fantasy is not something to be set aside or tolerated. It is that which drives our art and our wisdom. It should be celebrated and nurtured.

Sensitive periods

What is developmentally appropriate? How do you know? Where do you even begin? The Montessori sensitive periods can help.