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Children Learn What They Live By
Dorothy Law Nolte
If a child lives with criticism
He learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility
He learns to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule
He learns to be shy.
If a child lives with jealousy
He learns to feel guilty.
But if a child lives with tolerance
He learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement
He learns self-confidence.
If a child lives with praise
He learns to appreciate.
If a child lives with fairness
He learns justice.
If a child lives with approval
He learns to like himself.
If a child lives with security
He learns to have faith.
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship
He learns to find love in the world.
Casa Kaede home page
In my travels along the internet highway, I come across good Montessori resources. As I find them I will include them in this post.
Information about Dr Maria Montessori
MONTESSORI IN THE HOME
Bringing Montessori into your home
The Wonder Years – A Montessori home environment
Parenting for independence blogpost
Practical life in the home - a good list of undertakings that a child will appreciate
Summer vacation – a practical life approach
Montessori at home: the senses
Montessori prepared environment at home
How to create a prepared environment
MONTESSORI AT HOME WEBLOGS
Lavenderandlimes.blogspot/kids
Montessori for everyone – Montessori home schooling
Moose Huntress – Montessori at home website
Happy Hearts home schooling blog links
Chasing Cheerios - a homeschooling weblog
INFANT TODDLER YEARS
The Montessori Merthod for the Infant Toddler
Parenting books for the infant years
Secrets of childhood – infant center
The first three years of life
WEBSITES
Montessori videos on You Tube
Montessori videos on Vimeo
Montessori for infants and toddlers
Montessori content on Blogger
SUPPLIES
Montessori Research and development
Comprehensive list of Montessori materials resources
Little Red Riding Hood: Supplies for infants and toddlers
Etsy stores with Montessori tags
Goose Designs on Etsy
Spore: A modern Montessori material
Michael Olaf Infant and Primary years supplies
Montessori for everyone supplies
Montessori books on Amazon.com
MONTESSORI TEACHER’s BLOGS
The following is my choice of resource books that I have ordered in preparation for an upcoming birth. I probably won’t add a medical book as you can find good medical sites online, and I have the ability to call a government nurse over the phone in the province where I live. I am the type of person who doesn’t read manuals and skips around resource books. As a result, I don’t want to order too many resource books as I probably wouldn’t read them all, and I suspect I won’t have much time for reading!
I have heard high praise about the writings and research of Tim Seldin from my colleagues in the education field and decided to order his book How to Raise an Amazing Child. For more information about the work of Tim Seldin’s organization see www.montessori.org
Tim Seldin speaks about Montessori education:
I own a copy of Sylvana Montenaro’s book Understanding the Human Being, which focuses on the 0 – 3 age group from a Montessori perspective and have had the opportunity to attend a workshop Dr. Montenaro held in Japan. I wanted to find some recent contributions to body of work about the infant years from a Montessori perspective so I chose the Child’s Play activities based book shown above and the following book by Clare Healy. Volume 3 focuses on the 0 – 3 age group.
I received high praise about the book from a new mother and decided to have it on hand as a resource. Apparently it works well with the five principles of sleep (as described in the following link) and in the Happiest Baby on the Block book. Thoughts about babies sleep are varied and often contradictory. So I hesitate to commit to any one principle too quickly without a period of trial and error and observation.
The following book appears to be a good modern version of a Dr. Spock type primer.
