For Parents
•  Discipline as Guidance
•  Gifts for Adolescents
•  Children in Nature: Why It Matters
•  The Montessori Family's Role
•  Spring Cleaning as Brain Food
•  Clearing the Clutter Feeds the Brain
•  The Hazards of Organized Activities for Children
    Under 12 Years Old
•  Protecting Children During a Horrific Event
•  Happy Feet: Sinking Into the Ocean
•  Happy Feet Two: An Incoherent Mishmash of Pop
    Culture, Child Peril and Eco-Fear Mongering

 

For Montessorians
•  The Child, The Adult and the Prepared
    Environment
•  The Absorbent Mind and the Sensitive Periods
•  Movement, Intelligence and Independence
•  Building Trust with Infants and Toddlers
•  Cosmic Education for Infants and Toddlers
•  Maria Montessori and Educational Forces
    in America

Children manifest what nature intends for humans; it is in our nature to be nurtured.

P. Donohue Shortridge

 

 

 

 

 

Style Note: My articles and essays include sentences in which the pronouns "he" or "it" are used as a generic reference to "the child."