My sister’s birthday falls on December 25th and she missed the cutoff date for kindergarten by just five days. My parents faced the dilemma of holding her back or putting…
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When my son was a toddler, I began teaching about money by being very upfront about how I was spending money. When we went grocery shopping, I would tell him,…
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“The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent or teacher, who should remain a quiet observer…
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The idea of independence in toddlers may seem oxymoronic. How can a toddler, who is not that removed from infancy be independent? In fact, many parents often bemoan the…
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One spring day, a young boy from the Montessori adolescent class came to give me a note that had been stapled shut and was marked ‘For your eyes only’. I…
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