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    A Montessori Reading List for Parents

    April 28, 2017 /

    An essential reading list to get started with Montessori at home.

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    How To Introduce a Second Language at Home and Raise a Bilingual Baby even if you're not fluent

    Bilingual Baby – How To Introduce A Second Language At Home

    July 7, 2017

    When It Comes To Books Less Is More

    June 6, 2017
    How to talk about consent with a young child - why consent always matters

    How to Talk About Consent with A Toddler

    October 16, 2017
  • Montessori - A Parent's Guide

    Baby Steps Towards Montessori 

    April 24, 2017 /

    How to start Montessori from birth without spending a penny or rearranging your home.

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    Why There’s No Elf on Our Shelf

    December 2, 2017

    A Remedy for Modern Childhood

    May 28, 2017

    Moms need Montessori too

    May 15, 2017
  • Our Montessori Home

    Montessori at 8 Months

    April 20, 2017 /

    A look at the Montessori Inspired work we are offering to our 8 month old.

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    Montessori Inspired Seed Exploration Tray

    April 7, 2019

    Treasure Baskets 8-10 Months

    July 3, 2017
    The Montessori Materials we used at home with our 10 month old, spoiler alert; the object permanence box isn't worth the spend!

    Montessori Materials at 10 months

    July 6, 2017
  • Montessori - A Parent's Guide

    Wooden Egg and Cup

    April 19, 2017 /

    The joy of simple Montessori work can have complex rewards for a child as seen with the Egg and Cup at 8 months.

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    Using music, songs and signs to create a bilingual environment for your child

    Bilingual Baby – Using Songs and Signs to Introduce a Second Language

    July 14, 2017

    Moms need Montessori too

    May 15, 2017
    How to talk about consent with a young child - why consent always matters

    How to Talk About Consent with A Toddler

    October 16, 2017
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    Treasure Baskets 6-8 Months

    April 15, 2017 /

    The benefit of offering treasure baskets and sensory play to babies.  I love everything about Montessori but one aspect of its current interpretation is the consumerism it encourages. Deciding to create a Montessori home should not cost a small fortune and require masses of materials because Montessori is not defined by the materials but rather by simplicity and a sense purposeful play. This is where treasure baskets come in! Treasure baskets are collections of themed objects that you have around the home which provide children with the opportunity for sensory play, (sensory play being anything that engages one of the five senses). “Everything we know about the world has come…

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    How to talk about consent with a young child - why consent always matters

    How to Talk About Consent with A Toddler

    October 16, 2017
    How to create a Montessori Room for an infant

    How To Create a Montessori Room – The Prepared Environment From 1 -3 Years

    July 12, 2017

    The benefits of wooden toys

    May 8, 2017
  • Montessori - A Parent's Guide

    Introducing a Newborn to Dogs 

    April 13, 2017 /

    What are the practical precautions to take and preparations to make when bring home a baby to a house with dogs.  Preparations Having a baby means lots of new objects, smells and sounds, dogs are naturally curious and will want to explore these new aspects of their home so it’s a good idea to get your dogs used to this before the baby is born. While I was still pregnant we got Holmes and Claude ready for life with a newborn. We let them sniff his blankets, his talcum powder, the nappy bags we’d be using, we pushed the empty pram around the house and set the bouncer in the…

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    Offering Choice; A 5 Step Guide to Offering Your Toddler Choices.

    September 6, 2017

    Montessori with Young Children Close In Age

    January 13, 2019
    Maria Montessori Quote - the best Montessori Quotes about infancy. A short summary of essential quotes for parent's starting their Montessori journey

    The Best Montessori Quotes

    August 9, 2017
  • Montessori - A Parent's Guide

    Sensitive Period: Gross Movement 

    April 9, 2017 /

    Developing children will go through  several Sensitive Periods as they grow. During each they will experience a preference for working on a specific skill. The Sensitive Period for Movement is 0-4,  broken into two distinct phases; the acquisition of gross and fine motor from 0-2.5 years, and the refinement and coordination of movement from 2.5-4 years. Now that Alfie is finally rolling (applause and sighs of relief please), I thought it would be a good time to look at how to accommodate his entrance into the  Sensitive Period for Movement. As we were living in a building site we didn’t have the luxury of a Montessori Movement Area, there were no…

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    A Montessori Library

    May 21, 2017

    Types of Play; Functional Play

    November 13, 2017

    Treasure Baskets 6-8 Months

    April 15, 2017
  • In The Garden

    Here Come The Girls

    April 7, 2017 /

     Chick, chick chickeeeeeeeens! Oh how exciting! Our hens arrived last Friday and I am besotted already. To say ‘arrived’ is possibly an overstatement, it implies they jetted in from somewhere exotic with monogrammed luggage and an entourage, though when you see them its not hard to imagine that being the case. Introducing Joan and Zsa Zsa, two fine looking birds named after two fine looking broads (Collins and Gabor, keep up). In reality there was very little glamour save for that found in the fetishising of all things rural and inefficient, they arrived in an apple box. I picked them up from a man in the village who keeps…

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    Montessori At Home – Cooking with A Toddler

    September 24, 2018

    August in the Kitchen Garden

    August 13, 2019

    Easy Vegetables to Grow with Children

    March 16, 2018
  • Being Mum

    Our Experience of Baby Led Weaning

    April 7, 2017 /

    Why we made the unpopular decision to give up on Baby Led Weaning  and embrace spoon feeds.  Baby Led Weaning has become another way of saying “good parenting”. Baby’s who are weaned the BLW way are less fussy eaters, more independent and have better motor skills than babies who are are spoon fed. Allegedly. There are definitely pros and cons to BLW and spoon feeding, but for us the way if the spoon was the way to a happy, full baby! I loved the idea of Baby Led Weaning because I love cooking, I’m fairly confident that the majorly of meals served on Cnoc na Gáire are healthy and tasty.…

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    An Open Letter of Thanks; It Takes A Village

    September 2, 2017

    The A-Z of the First Trimester

    November 22, 2017

    And the nominees for best parenting blog are…

    August 3, 2018

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