Infants and Toddlers

Preparing for the First Day of School: 0-3

Whether this is the first time your child is headed to school or you're preparing for your youngest of six, the first day of school...

Summer with your Infant/Toddler

This is a curious summer. Some children have returned to school after months away. Others are still at home with their families, maybe...

Mealtime in the First Plane: 0-3

Montessori classrooms for infants and toddlers are designed with four primary areas in mind: sleeping, toileting or diapering, eating and...

Aggression in the First Plane

While Montessori classrooms are generally peaceful places to be, and Montessori teachers describe the intrinsic peacefulness of the...

Montessori Monday: Transferring

It's a sort of curious activity to watch: a young child, mesmerized, repeatedly transferring some small object from one container to...

Math and the Infant/Toddler

You may have noticed the beautiful Math materials in Montessori early childhood and elementary classrooms. Enticing and elegant, a few...

Empathy in the First Plane: 0-3

Are children naturally empathetic? You may have heard of the phenomenon of infants crying in a nursery, reacting to each other's cries in...

Concentration in the First Plane: 0-3

Feeling distracted? Overwhelmed? Like your checklist keeps getting longer but you have less and less time to get it done? In a climate so...

The Freedom to Interact (Or Not) in the First Plane: 0-3

The Freedom to Interact with Others reflects one of Montessori's Tendencies of Humans: the Tendency toward Communication. We understand...

Separation Stress in Infant & Toddler

No one wants to see their child sad, especially not at those transition moments when you’re leaving for work or saying goodbye at the...