Though I have heard about Montessori for a long time, it didn’t get my attention until one friend introduced to me the Montessori method and shared with me how great it impacts her kids. They sent their kids to a Catholic Montessori school. Another friend later told us their grandkids went to the same school and they all love it. My friends from Shanghai sent their kids to an international Montessori preschool, and they told me they could see the changes on their kids as well. Soon, we started to learn more about Montessori method and really love it! It’s never too early to start Montessori. Actually applying Montessori at home is so much fun!
Here are some baby steps we did to start the journey of exploring Montessori method:
1. Subscribe Lovevery Play Kits
We subscribed Lovevery play kits for Therese, highly recommended by our friend. Therese absolutely loves them. They send us a play kit with new toys and items every two months. Here are some most recent ones we got:
Though I didn’t see any individual toys from the kits we have from Amazon, there are several other individual products from Lovevery you can get from Amazon: https://amzn.to/2CyyPWR
2. Read Books
We have three books about Montessori: Montessori from the Start, The Joyful Child, The Montessori Toddler. These are really good ones and I highly recommended them (recommended by my friends and other Montessori moms from Facebook groups as well):
You can purchsed them from Amazon. Here are the links:
- Montessori from the Start: https://amzn.to/2Cv5wnQ
- The Joyful Child: https://amzn.to/2p1Puie
- The Montessori Toddler: https://amzn.to/32DSjDP
3. Join Montessori Facebook groups
You can find some Montessori groups from Facebook and it’s so much fun to see how other moms/educators use Montessori method in very creative and beautiful ways. I’m in Montessori at Home (0 to 3 years) group and Montessori 101 group.
These are some baby steps we’re doing to begin the journey. Of course, there are so many resources you can find online as well!
Our next step is to convert baby Therese’s room to a Montessori room (we’ve moved lots of stuff from her room and left only a crib there). I’ll update it when it’s done.
Other resources:
Joyful Christine 