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Summer holidays have started, and it’s the time for vacations. Most of us would go on a long-awaited vacation with kids and family. The most stressful part of these long-awaited vacations is to keep the kids engaged during the long drives or long waits at airports or train stations. Instead of using the gadgets as …
Pronouns for kids are a major milestone for their learning and speech-language development. It helps them use appropriate substitutes for a noun or a noun phrase in case of repetitions. For example, he, her, they, them. In today’s evolved era, using a person’s pronouns correctly is also about showing them respect as it is important …
The Independence day fever has not yet subsided in my house. My kid is still relishing the stories about the Indian Freedom struggle and History. So we keep pouring over our history books and digging deeper to understand what freedom meant to our ancestors and what they thought were their responsibilities to their country, parents, …
Are you sure that you know your child? Did you get stumped like me with this question? This was the precise question asked by one of my Montessori friends. Honestly, till that time, I thought that I know my child like the back of my hand, and what is there to learn more about him …
Though the news of school closures due to COVID-19, were all over the place, I was deep in my own Etopia of thinking that this wouldn’t happen for me here in Chennai. As there were no incidences of COVID and also Chennai being hot and humid, there is a very rare chance of the virus’s …
After I became interested in the Montessori philosophy, the first and foremost thing I had done is to search for some good books, which I can read and learn. Over a period of time, I read a lot of books on Montessori and parenting, but giving here, the list of books that I enjoyed reading …
There are a lot of questions and myths that a Montessori parent encounters in their day to day life. And this post is trying to capture most of the most common misconceptions on the Montessori system, that I have encountered till date in chronological order. Misconceptions on the Montessori System: Montessori curriculum is not at …
The first and foremost doubt that plagues any parent after they hear about the Montessori Methods is that what is the next path for my kid after he completes his Montessori schooling? Will he be able to compete with the mainstream students? Will he be able to perform better or adjust better in the mainstream …
As a typical first time parent, I was there for each and every minute my kid needed me. I used to think that this time with my kid is very precious to me and I need to have that quality time/bonding with my kid. So all my things/tasks were taking back seat. I never realized …
After understanding the concepts of the Montessori method, I was excited and started looking for ways to implement this method at home. As initially, I was reluctant to admit my kid at such an early age into the school and also there were no good Montessori schools in the nearby distance to my house. So …