Montessori is an Aid to Life

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News
News of upcoming events and happenings in the UK Montessori community

Your Letters
Emma Wong Singh answers readers' questions about Montessori related issues

Report
Getting Real Data
Hadrien Roche reports on the recent seminar held in London to investigate how we can produce the data required to convince the world that Montessori really works

Features
Preparing an Environment for Spontaneous Activity
In the first of a two-part article on observation AMI Trainer Louise Livingston looks at how we can prepare an environment that will allow us to make the kind of observations that will enable us to 'follow the child'

Why Praise is not Good for our Children
Dr Steven Hughes reviews the research on the effect of praise on children and comes up with some surprising findings

A Journey in Parenting a Child under Three
Kristin McAlister-Young talks about the challenges and joys of the Montessori approach to being a parent

Happy Talk – Helping your Child to Speak for Himself
As part of the launch of the Aid to Life Initiative we publish an article showing how the Montessori ideas can be presented in an easy-to-follow way that parents will find simple to implement

Regulars
Yesterday's Discovery - Today's Science
Lori Woellhaf investigates how a Montessori environment supports executive function

Dear Maria...
Gayle Wood asks, in a world where our children don't study Geography any more, what approach does Montessori take