News, thoughts, discussions on the topic of Montessori and more

In Montessori, you often hear about the "prepared environment", but what does it actually mean and how a parent can “prepare” it? We will talk about different rooms and areas of a house in a series of posts. Today, let’s have a look at how you can arrange a play area for your Child the Montessori way. In a traditional set up, a Child usually has all of Her toys stored in a large box or container. In order to find a certain toy She will need to dig through all of them, often getting distracted by other toys, jumping...

What is "Montessori"? No way we can answer this question with a single blog post - the topic is so very deep and broad! But if we have to, this is how we would put it into words:Montessori is an educational philosophy centered around the Child. It acknowledges the Child’s natural desire to learn. The role of parent and/or teacher in Montessori is to observe the Child and to encourage Her independent learning by preparing the environment that is welcoming, built with Child’s interests in mind, appropriate for the Child’s current developmental stage and challenging enough at the same time. What...

If you are familiar with the Montessori approach you probably are not surprised as to why we’ve chosen ‘Follow the Child’ as a name for our store. And if you are new to Montessori, then allow us to explain.