Learning Together
What Montessori can offer your family
New book…available March 2012
Montessori St Nicholas, the UK’s largest Montessori charity is delighted to announce the publication of a new parenting book: Building Strong Foundations: What Montessori can offer your family. The book takes a fresh look at family life to help parents put the child at the heart of the home and unlock their amazing potential. Packed with ideas and advice, it is relevant to parents of young children from birth upwards.
Philip Bujak, Montessori CEO says,
“The parenting journey is awe-inspiring, life changing and challenging. The young child is full of future possibility. This isn’t a how to manual on the right way to raise children. We simply hope this book will provide new insight and perspective to parents on how to bring out the best in children, whatever their budget. Sometimes it’s the smallest activities that can make the biggest impact on a child’s development.”
Better parenting starts from birth and is central to the life chances of every child. The book starts out exploring the first year of a baby’s life as a time of extraordinary growth and development. It stresses the key roles played by attachment, movement and communication.
It explains what the Montessori philosophy of “follow the child” means and discusses key elements of the approach which embraces child-led, natural and favorable home environments.
There are lovely personal insights from parents on how to promote a child’s independence through the daily routines of everyday family life: from getting dressed, personal hygiene, eating, and packing a bag to ideas on how to adapt a living space around the needs of the child.
Kathi Hughes, author says:
“Montessori encouraged us to help the child help herself. This not only leads to an independent child in practical terms but also one who learns to believe in her own capability to do things. This sense of success feeds into positive self-esteem and a sense of achievement and to a deeper appreciation of what they can do. I hope parents will enjoy reading this as much as I have writing it.”
For further information or to pre-order your book, RRP £5.99, please email: book@montessori.org.uk
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