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Alfie Kohn: A Voice in the Wilderness

Alfie Kohn: A Voice in the Wilderness

My husband and I had a rare treat tonight – an evening out together without our son. Even better, we attended a speech by Alfie Kohn titled Unconditional Parenting: Beyond Bribes & Threats. Some of Mr. Kohn’s more popular books include:1. The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Children and Parenting 2. Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason 3. Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise…

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Practical Life: Care of Plants

Practical Life: Care of Plants

Continuing our studies in the Practical Life album, I came across the section on Care of Plants. This is not my forte. I do not have a green thumb and plants tend to wither in my presence. I’m hoping to give DJ a chance to know more about plants. So we’re starting simple with a house plant. We went to the nursery and selected this Peace Lily and the supplies needed to care for it. In addition to being a…

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Brown Stair Activity and more

Brown Stair Activity and more

Because we were away for vacation most of last week I had expected I wouldn’t have any Montessori activities to write about. But Friday afternoon, DJ surprised me with a whirlwind of work, including more work with the Brown Stair than any other time since he first received it. He started out by taking the Brown Stair off the shelf and building it in order one prism at a time. This is significant because he’s mostly insisted on keeping it…

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End of Summer

End of Summer

We’ve been really busy the past week so this is going to be a full post. Many kids are going back to school this week and if DJ were going to go to preschool, he likely would have started sometime this month so I’m starting to feel like our homeschooling is getting to be a bit more “official”. So far we haven’t done any back to school special activities. We still “do school” at DJ’s whim. Whenever he decides to…

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