The child's senses are the tools through which she gathers information about the environment, and which allow for learning, thought and...

I often hear people's advice on how to respond (or not!) to baby's "whims" and cries. "Don't attend to their every call/cry or you'll...

Fundamental factors that positively influence a baby's psychological development are unconditional love, acceptance and attentions to...

The Sensitive Periods that Dr Montessori spoke about are quite different from the Critical Periods that brain development researchers...

There is logic in the way material is "presented" to a child: through observation the adult provides activities which meet the little...

Brain Gym activities are exercises which support the integration of the right and left hemisphere through the crossing of the midline. This integration is very important since it promotes the strengthening and growth of the Corpus Callosum, a band of myelinated fibres which allows for the transmission of neural messages between the two hemispheres. The stronger the Corpus Callosum, the smoother the learning processes for your child! When the messages are easily and smoothly e

Every parent wants the best for their children. We want them to be happy and successful. But what does it mean to be successful? One of the meanings of the term success is 'the attainment of wealth, position, honors or the like'...In this day and age there is a lot of pressure to get a good education (often equating to attending prestigious schools) to then be able to become successful. But what happens to those children who don't fit into the "one size fit all" kind of educa

Psychologist and science journalist Daniel Goleman, in his book "Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence", states that there's a strong...

Maria Montessori, in the list of human tendencies she compiled to assist adults provide children with a supportive environment, talked about "order". The need for order in children becomes noticeable during their first year of life. And it is different from the need for order an adult might display. In a child, this need is vital: it allows her to categorize her perceptions and construct an inner conceptual framework necessary to understand and interact with the world. The se

"To look at children's behaviour without looking at how their relationships feel to them is like trying to understand the weather without...