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MontessoriHow to Teach Your Toddler to Eat by Themselves: The Montessori Way
Your child is three years old, and you are still holding the spoon. You have tried letting her feed herself. Half the food ended up on the floor. So you went back to helping. This piece is about how to teach your toddler to eat by themselves, and why the environment matters more than the […]
PPavan Goyal6 min
Child DevelopmentMy Toddler Eats One Day and Not the Next: Why This Is Normal, What to Watch For
Your toddler ate almost nothing at lunch. You felt it in your chest before you finished clearing the plate. You wonder if she is unwell, or bored with the food, or whether something happened at school you do not know about. Yesterday she ate everything. Today she ate two bites. Nothing else has changed. If […]
PPavan Goyal6 min
EducationTeaching Children to Think Before Answering: What Montessori Calls the Art of Stepping Back
Teaching children to think before answering is one of the quieter skills a school can build, and one of the hardest for parents to protect at home. Most days, we do the opposite by accident. A child pauses at a question, and we fill the pause for her. We prompt, we suggest, we soften, […]
MMunira Hussain7 min
Child DevelopmentWhen Children Teach Adults: How Montessori Builds Real Understanding
When children teach adults something the adult did not know before, most parents assume the child in front of them is unusually gifted. A born presenter. A rehearsed talker. We think this reading gets the child wrong, and it gets the school wrong too. The reversal that surprises parents at our events, when the child […]
MMunira Hussain9 min
Child DevelopmentHow to Handle a Bored Child: Why Boredom Is a Skill, Not a Problem
Most parents want to know how to handle a bored child the moment the words I’m bored leave their child’s mouth. We understand the instinct. Your child looks unoccupied. You reach for a screen, a snack, a suggestion. But there is a different way to think about this moment, and it changes everything about how […]
MMunira Hussain7 min
MontessoriHow to Prepare Children for the Future: The Skill of 2050 and Why It Cannot Be Taught Directly
How to prepare children for the future is the question every parent is now asking, and asking it more urgently every two years as the world shifts in ways adults were not ready for. A father at our annual school event in November put it plainly. The skill his children would need most in 2050 […]
PPavan Goyal7 min
Adolescent Program- ErdkinderReal Learning in Montessori: What a School Gives an Adolescent and Why
Real learning Montessori is a phrase the movement uses often enough that it has started to lose precision. Schools market real learning. Curriculum brochures promise real learning. Parents looking for an alternative to conventional schooling are asked to recognize real learning when they see it. The word does honest work — but only when the […]
BBlue Blocks Micro Research Institute7 min
MontessoriHow Fossils Form: Iron, Time, and Selective Replacement in a Forty-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Skull
How fossils form is one of the questions children begin asking very young. The honest answer takes them into chemistry, deep time, and the slow conversation between organic matter and the rocks around it that unfolds over millions of years. Our Research Head, Sreemoyee Chakraborty, recently posted a short report with Professor Dhurjati Prasad Sengupta […]
BBlue Blocks Micro Research Institute7 min