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  • In The Garden,  Our Montessori Home

    Easy Vegetables to Grow with Children

    March 16, 2018 /

    Any outside space is the ultimate prepared environment, without any effort at all it provides a wealth of learning opportunities in just about every plane of development and to suit nearly every interest. Here's a quick guide on how to get started on the veg patch and how to get your toddler involved too!

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    March in the kitchen garden

    March in the Kitchen Garden

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  • Being Mum,  Ted's Take On...

    Wellies and Self Care

    March 12, 2018 /

    The lesson I learnt from the family shoes, how wellies can radicalise your self care and why your children need a mom who puts herself first.

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    A Waste Free Week

    January 18, 2018

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    In The Garden

    March in the Kitchen Garden

    March 4, 2018 /

    In the third of this year’s series on the Kitchen Garden I’m sharing our planting schedule and thinking a little bit about Spring. Spring On The March As a child of the summer Winter takes an unfortunate toll on my sun seeking soul, March therefore holds a special charm for me. It is in March thankfully that Winter finally surrenders though rarely with the dignity to accept the inevitable and more years than not with a decrepit stubbornness of threadbare fog cloaks and miserly dustings of frost. In March the evening is once again returned to us, ours are the dawn chorus and the evensong, ours are the fresh eggs…

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  • Montessori - A Parent's Guide

    Montessori and Independence; The Self – Esteem Secret

    March 4, 2018 /

    Examining the link between independence and self esteem and discovering that it is not something we can expect schools to achieve without parental support. 

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  • Recommended Reads

    What’s on Our Bookshelves 

    March 1, 2018 /

    A little look at the Spring books we will be reading with our toddler. What’s that you smell in the air?! It might be SPRING! I can hardly contain myself, while I’m trying to embrace seasonal living and have actually enjoyed Winter this year I’m still ready for longer days, blue skies and getting the feeling back in my fingers. We’ve stocked up our bookshelves with some fresh books for this fresh season. These books will stay on our shelves for a few weeks. They will make up the ‘core’ or our bookshelves, we will top them up with weekly trips to the library as well as a few old…

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Hello and welcome! I’m Ted, a Mother, a Reader and a Montessori Believer! Here you'll find how we're using Montessori at home and all the ways that we try to celebrate the joy in every day (mostly with books...

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